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Thanks Peter. That's useful for someone like me adapting to MapInfo. Something that I thought would be handy is the ability to set styles based on a field value. If you have a thematic layer this works but not in the source table. In my role I've inherited a number of datasets where the styles have been set according to the feature type e.g. stormwater node types. When I'm adding or editing the features I need to apply the style for each type. I can do this by a selection and update collectively or if I'm correct have a layer for each type and set the style there. Let me know if I've missed something.

Mark McGovern

Technical Officer - GIS

Meander Valley Council

Hi Mark

Good question!

Yeah, the Insert Style option is really only good for a table where all objects have the same style. If your table holds objects of different types shown with different styles, I'd suggest using a thematic for the layer instead.

You can even save this theme with the table and have it applied whenever you open the table, see Default Theme for Table.

If you want to "save" the thematic style to the individual objects which isn't an uncommon request, you can use the tool HardCodedThematics which will take the style from the thematic and apply it to the objects. If this is of interest to you, I'll try to dig out the tool.

Thanks Peter. That's useful for someone like me adapting to MapInfo. Something that I thought would be handy is the ability to set styles based on a field value. If you have a thematic layer this works but not in the source table. In my role I've inherited a number of datasets where the styles have been set according to the feature type e.g. stormwater node types. When I'm adding or editing the features I need to apply the style for each type. I can do this by a selection and update collectively or if I'm correct have a layer for each type and set the style there. Let me know if I've missed something.

Mark McGovern

Technical Officer - GIS

Meander Valley Council

Thanks Peter. The default theme option may be the way to go in the future.

I'm curious to know what is best or most common practice for this i.e. saving individual styles in the table or saving as a single style and using a thematic layer to display the individual values as required.

Mark

Hi Mark

Good question!

Yeah, the Insert Style option is really only good for a table where all objects have the same style. If your table holds objects of different types shown with different styles, I'd suggest using a thematic for the layer instead.

You can even save this theme with the table and have it applied whenever you open the table, see Default Theme for Table.

If you want to "save" the thematic style to the individual objects which isn't an uncommon request, you can use the tool HardCodedThematics which will take the style from the thematic and apply it to the objects. If this is of interest to you, I'll try to dig out the tool.

Thanks Peter. That's useful for someone like me adapting to MapInfo. Something that I thought would be handy is the ability to set styles based on a field value. If you have a thematic layer this works but not in the source table. In my role I've inherited a number of datasets where the styles have been set according to the feature type e.g. stormwater node types. When I'm adding or editing the features I need to apply the style for each type. I can do this by a selection and update collectively or if I'm correct have a layer for each type and set the style there. Let me know if I've missed something.

Mark McGovern

Technical Officer - GIS

Meander Valley Council

Hi Mark

Personally, I like the option to set a global style for my layers as I can see that style in the Layer List as a sort of legend for my map.

The same goes for creating an individual theme for my layer. The Layer List now shows these categories and allows me to turn on/off the individual values. This gives me an easy way to focus on only certain elements from the layer, like a kind of layer filter.

But I really use all the options; global style, individual theme, and styles from the individual objects.

If you use workspaces, they all work fine. If you tend to open up the tables individually, the last two have the benefit of being able to store the preferred display. The global style can only be stored in a workspace at the moment as we don't store layer settings in general with the tables.

Thanks Peter. The default theme option may be the way to go in the future.

I'm curious to know what is best or most common practice for this i.e. saving individual styles in the table or saving as a single style and using a thematic layer to display the individual values as required.

Mark

Hi Mark

Good question!

Yeah, the Insert Style option is really only good for a table where all objects have the same style. If your table holds objects of different types shown with different styles, I'd suggest using a thematic for the layer instead.

You can even save this theme with the table and have it applied whenever you open the table, see Default Theme for Table.

If you want to "save" the thematic style to the individual objects which isn't an uncommon request, you can use the tool HardCodedThematics which will take the style from the thematic and apply it to the objects. If this is of interest to you, I'll try to dig out the tool.

Thanks Peter. That's useful for someone like me adapting to MapInfo. Something that I thought would be handy is the ability to set styles based on a field value. If you have a thematic layer this works but not in the source table. In my role I've inherited a number of datasets where the styles have been set according to the feature type e.g. stormwater node types. When I'm adding or editing the features I need to apply the style for each type. I can do this by a selection and update collectively or if I'm correct have a layer for each type and set the style there. Let me know if I've missed something.

Mark McGovern

Technical Officer - GIS

Meander Valley Council