Fields Editor

Overview

The default tooltip behaviour on active layers / features is to display all the data related to that feature. While this may be informative, it may not be presented in an aesthetically pleasing fashion and may include information that is not relevant to the end user. Mapworks allows the user to customise the on-click display format. This includes:

• Selecting which fields should be visible
• Renaming the field names
• Applying a field dictionary on the field value (i.e. translating a data code to a human readable value)
• Changing the order of the fields

To open the Fields Editor:

1. In the sidebar, select the Layers tab
2. Right click the layer and click Fields

Field Titles

Click Generate User Friendly Field Titles to automatically convert field display names.

Field Visibility

By default, all fields are visible. Click the Toggle Visibility symbol for each field to choose whether they appear in the tooltip.

Example tooltip of above field visibility configuration:

Field Order

1. Click the Fields Order tab
2. Drag and drop fields to adjust the order that they appear in the tooltip

Editing Fields

1. Click the Fields Editor tab
2. Click the Edit Field symbol

Note: Prefetch is a developer setting only relevant for applications.

Field Dictionaries

1. Click the Fields Editor tab
2. Click the Edit Field symbol

Under the Dictionary tab, layer field dictionaries can be manually added to each field.

Under the Dataset Dictionary tab, assigned dataset field dictionaries are displayed.

To create/assign dataset field dictionaries, see Dataset Field Dictionaries.