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Getting Started (MAE)

Lesson 4: Create a legend

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Each legend created is applicable across various application types without creating specific legends for a browser app, desktop app and so on.
If you logged in as a Studio Administrator you can create new legends in Content → Legend → New. In this form you have different possibilities:

Left hand side

Datasets
  • Vector Data
  • Raster Data
  • 3D data (only M.App Enterprise Professional)
Vector Sets
  • Detailed information about Vector Sets can be found here
Vector Sets
Vector sets allow you to bundle your vector layers into one layer. They are most commonly used to create base layers. What are vector sets and why to use them? Vector sets can be used to combine multiple layers to one. It publishes all vector data configured in the same
M.App EnterpriseMarina Lanxinger

Right hand side

+ Add Theme
Allows you to create collections of thematically suitable layers
Legend Name
This name is mandatory and must be unique throughout the entire tenant
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Main Window: you can drag and drop from the left side to the main legend window.

A possible configuration could look like this.

Legend structure with themes

Additional information

Data type icon

If you hover above the first icon on the right side of the layer name, you get the information about the original dataset name. For example, if you renamed the layer name in the legend to roads but at the import process you didn't change the name, which means it is equal to the table name you would see e.g. roads_lines_newyork at the hover.

Shield icon

The shield icon beside the layer name allows the Studio Administrator to restrict the visualization / interactivity with this certain layer. How to use claims and how to set them up correctly can be found in the post linked right after this sentence.

How to use claims
In this tutorial you learn how to use claims in M.App Enterprise You can create new claims at Security -> Claims. You then have to decide how you would like to set it up: * per user - then simply check the box in front of the user name * every
M.App EnterpriseStefan Schüttenkopf

Visibility icon

With the click on this icon you are defining if the layer is visible at the start-up of your application. Please not that the state here only handles the start-up. You can always turn it visible / invisible in the layer tree of your application.

Base layer icon

Indicates the layer must always be positioned as the last layer in the map, behind all other layers. Even when multiple BASE Layers are added to a map only the top one will be drawn.

Layers of this type are usually layers with raster data.