Showing Map Objects in Different Colors
If you have a single type of geography that contains multiple types or statuses of things, then you may want your map to display those things as different colors, or hide certain things entirely. For example, it's common for organizations to want a dashboard map showing fee properties in one color and easements in another. Alternatively, perhaps you want different statuses of issues to appear as different colors, or resolved issues to not appear at all.
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- Changing map item styles within an individual record map, view, or widget
- Changing default map item styles in Settings
- Changing map item styles in a report template
When making widget, view, or report maps, you can style by almost any available field. When editing the appearance of a record or work item map, your options are more limited.
Styling by date
When you choose a date field to style by, you'll be asked how to group the dates: by Day, Month, or Year. This grouping is what makes date styling useful — without it, every feature would effectively get its own color, since dates are otherwise unique down to the second. Grouping by month, for instance, lets you style a season of site visits so that all visits from the same month share a color.
This grouping option is available anywhere you can style a map by field — on an individual record map, in your account's default Settings styles, and in report templates.
Changing map item styles within an individual record map, saved view, or dashboard widget
The following instructions apply when you want to style the map for a single record, or to change map styles in map views and dashboard widgets. If you want to change the default map styles for all records, jump to the section on Settings.
To access the 'style-by' options, click on the layers button on the top of the map, then expand the layer that you want to edit. Then click on the color swatch (point, line or polygon) and select 'Same for each feature':
You'll be presented with the available options that you can style that feature by:
The work items fields that you can style the map by are shown at the top. The geography fields are shown at the bottom. Once you choose the field you want to style by, you'll need to choose which values will appear differently.
The screenshot below is an example where 'Issue Status' is the chosen field. The dropdown menu then displays all Issue statuses. Note that for some text fields, the available options may not populate. In these cases, you will need to copy and paste the exact text values desired.
After you've selected the options you want to style differently, click 'OK'
The options then appear in the layers list. Click on each swatch to style it the way you want it.
Tip: Uncheck a layer to hide it completely on the map.
As with other map edits, these changes will be reflected for all users when looking at the same record, view, or widget. Changes to the 'Record Map' will be also reflected in Landscape Mobile.
Here's a short video that goes over this process using a Map Widget to display properties in different colors based on their Status:
Changing default map item styles in Settings
If you want to apply global changes to the way record map items are displayed by default throughout your portfolio, you can do so from the Settings page (you must be an Administrator to access Settings). Users will still be able to style individual maps as described in the section above.
Navigate to Settings > Map Layers > Map Layer Styles. Expand the map layer you wish to edit, then click on the color swatch (point, line or polygon) and select 'Same for each feature.' You'll be presented with the available options that you can style that feature by:
Once you choose the field you want to style by, you'll need to choose which values will appear differently.
After you've selected the options you want to style differently, click 'OK'. The options then appear in the layers list. Click on each swatch to style it the way you want it.
Changing map item styles in a report template
If you want a report always to print map items in a designated color regardless of how they have been styled within the portfolio record, or if you want to hide certain points from a map layer in a report template, you can do so within the report template's map block. You must be an Administrator to access report templates.
Click into the map block, expand the map layer you wish to edit, then click on the color swatch (point, line or polygon). In the dropdown that says 'Automatic,' choose 'Override,' then select 'Same for each feature.' You'll be presented with the available options that you can style that feature by:
Once you choose the field you want to style by, you'll need to choose which values will appear differently.
After you've selected the options you want to style differently, click 'OK'. The options then appear in the layers list. Click on each swatch to style it the way you want it. Uncheck a layer to hide it completely on the report map.
Autonomous date field styling (report templates only)
Normally, you build up your style list by selecting one value at a time, as described above. In a report template where layers are styled by a date field, you can use autonomous styling: Landscape will generate the colors directly from the data in the report, instead of you pre-defining each one.
To use automatic styling, leave the values field blank in the popup that appears after you've selected to style by that date field, and check the box to Give each other value in the report its own color. Automatic styling will color up to the 12 most common values; anything beyond that — along with blank values — falls into "All Others."
This is the companion feature to showing all site visits on a single combined map: once a report map is aggregating many records onto one map, automatic styling by date is the easiest way to make each one visually distinguishable without manually configuring a color for every visit.