Select Template
Feature Description
If you need to draw a map or update data directly based on an existing template, you can use the Select Template feature. This feature allows you to select an existing template in the current workspace or a local *.xmlmap template file as the editing template.
Function Entry
- Edit Data tab->Basic editing group->Template editing drop-down->Select Template.
- Map tab->Template editing group->Template editing drop-down->Select Template.
Operation Steps
- Open the Select Template dialog box through any of the above feature entries.
- In the pop-up Select Template dialog box, set the parameters:
- Edit Template: In the drop-down options of the Edit Template input box, you can select a template existing in the current workspace. For template import and export, refer to the Template Manager document. In addition, you can click the file button behind the input box to select an editing template stored locally.
- Reassign Datasource: After selecting a template, the program will automatically match datasources with the same name in the current workspace based on the template information. If the datasource names are different, you can manually modify them.
- In the Reassign Datasource list, the Source Datasource column displays the datasource names used in the template, and the Specify Datasource column displays the datasources in the current workspace. Here you can reassign the datasource through the drop-down options in the cells.
- The toolbar above the table provides the Select All, Select Reverse, and Uniform Settings buttons. You can batch select table records and then click the Uniform Settings button to uniformly specify a datasource for the selected records.
- After completing the settings, click the OK button to generate a new map based on the selected template and the specified datasource, and open it to the Map window. At the same time, the Template editing panel will be displayed. The related operations in the panel are the same as those in Template editing.
Note:If the datasets in the specified datasource do not match the datasets in the template, the layers that do not match the data will not be created successfully, and the Output window will list the unmatched layers.
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