5.5 MEASUREMENT RESULTS TABLE
Each of the drawing variants - points, lines, polygons and annotations have their own results table, although they are displayed simultaneously in the map window and switching between them is the same as switching between drawing tools in the work panel under the module switcher. There is a group of tools above the table for controlling the results table and another directly in the table.
- Prioritize Selected - moves selected elements in the table before others
- Save selected to clipboard - and then you can paste the records into a text editor
- Search in data - a quick way to filter records using the text you enter
- Show/hide filter - show/hide text boxes to filter results for all columns
- Show only filtered in map - limits the visibility of features in the map to only those that are filtered
- Select map elements - allows you to select and highlight artwork by interacting with the map
- Browse to selected features - zooms to the selected features in the map window
- Disable highlighting of selected items
- Delete row - removes selected records from the results table. If none is selected, removes all of them.
- Export selected data - allows you to export the results table to a selected format, for example .xlsx
- Select item in table - click in the check box to select and highlight the record
- Browse to feature - zooms to the selected feature drawing in the map window
- Save item - allows you to save measurements for yourself or for all users of the project
Select and highlight elements
When you hover over a row in the table, the row is highlighted and the drawing is highlighted in light blue in the map window.
The selected elements are highlighted in dark blue in the table and in the map and can be selected either by checking the checkbox on the left side of the table or by clicking on the shape in the map window, but only with the Select elements in map function enabled (Button 6). It is possible to use the polygon drawing to select multiple elements. Clicking and dragging draws a rectangle, single clicks allow you to create a polygon of any shape. Drawing is terminated by double-clicking or right-clicking. Prioritize Selected (Button 1) places the selected elements at the top of the table.
Approaching the elements
Zooming the map to the elements can be achieved in two ways. Browse to selected elements (Button 7) zooms the map to the elements that are selected and therefore highlighted in the table, Browse to element (Button 12), located next to each record, zooms the map to that particular element.
Filtering elements
Element filtering allows you to display only those records in the results table whose attribute meets a certain condition. The easiest and fastest way to do this is to use the Search in Data tool (Button 3), which displays a text box to enter the desired constraint. Filters for all columns separately can be accessed using Show/Hide Filter (Button 4), and for each column you can still open a popup with a more detailed filter specification and change the operator from “equals” to “is greater than”, for example.
Save data to file
Selected rows from the table can be saved to a file outside MGM in two different ways. A quicker solution can be achieved by using Save Selected to Clipboard (Button 2) and then pasting into, for example, an .xlsx file. The result then looks as follows:
An alternative is Save Rows (Button 7), which allows saving records to a selected format - for example .xlsx or to a Shapefile file with geometry.
Save data for other users
The recorded measurement and annotation elements can be saved for future use using Save element (Button 13), which offers either saving only for the logged-in user or also for other project users. Of course, it is possible to leave an element unsaved, in which case it will disappear when the project is closed.
