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Functions (Desktop App)

Map Context Menu

This post will shed light on all the options an app user has in the map context menu within a desktop app of M.App Enterprise.

Let's start on how to access the map context menu.

Basic map context menu options

Open your Desktop Application and right-click on the map view. A small panel will appear with the options listed below.

You can either refresh your map or use the zoom box to zoom in on a specific area of the map by drawing a rectangualr box around it. In addition Center at cursor position will allow you to center your map view based on the location of your cursor.

Layer based map context menu

When you right-click on one or more of the displayed geometries in the map view, additional options will be available.

As you can see, the map context menu displays the layers available at the cursor position where the right-click was done. You can now choose the desired layer and use one of the following options:

  • Set active
  • Set geometries (Sets the layer active as well)
  • Queries
  • Actions
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Queries are only available if prerequisites are fulfilled (layer is hit and in the legend). Additionally both query types are available, because the {ENTITY.IdFilter} placeholder is automatically filled with the ID of the selected element.
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Actions are only available if the actions is Feature based.
Once you have selected a geometry, you will also find two more options in your map context menu. One is clear map selection to deselect the highlighted geometries, while the other option Fit to selected enables you to zoom to the selected geometry.

Show geometry information since 16.11.0

Setting a layer active and then selecting a geometry reveals an additional option, called Actions within the map context menu.

Select Geometry information to open a window with detailed information about the selected geometry. As indicated in the images below, the information provided includes general information, information about the attributes and the exact coordinates of all nodes of the respective geometry