Working with the Data Window and the Clipboard

This section is valid for the following flavors: Geospatial Portal, GeoMedia WebMap Advantage, GeoMedia WebMap Professional; GeoMedia WebMap Essentials; ERDAS Apollo Advantage; ERDAS Apollo Professional.

In the data window, you can display feature classes and attribute values for selected data sources (for example: WebMap Publisher, WFS, or PSS).

1. To open the data window, click Data window on the Tools tab.

   

2. To display data in the data window, from the Classes and queries list, select the items to be added to the data window and click Add.

   Data in the data window is presented in tabular form. One window of data can contain many tabs with displayed data. Data for one class is presented on a single tab.

   Each data view lets you:

   • Sort data by selected attribute (column)
   • Hide and un-hide selected columns
   • Change the column size
   • Change the column order
   • Select a number of rows (data records)

   Use commands from the context menu for each column to sort the data and to select columns to be displayed.

   

   Selecting records in the data window will automatically highlight the corresponding objects on the map, on condition that they have been previously displayed in the map window. Depending on the option you select in the Settings tab > For items in select set group, you can do the following:

   • View objects at the current scale
   • View objects in the center of the map window at the current scale
   • Match a view to the selected object and zoom in by a specified value

   In a data window you can also:

   • Add selected features to clipboard
   • Export all features to a CSV file
   • Export the selected features to a CSV file
   • Show the properties form for the selected feature

   The following functions are grouped at the bottom of data window:

   • Navigate between pages of the data window. Click the arrows or type the required page number in the box .
   • Move selected features to the clipboard. To move the selected feature to the clipboard, select records in the data window, and click Add to clipboard . To refresh the data window, click Refresh .
   • Export data from a data window to a CSV file. To export, click Export all features to a file or Export selected features to a file .

   For each tab of the data window, buttons to perform the following actions are located in the Action column:

   • Properties - Click to view the feature Properties window.

     

   • Add to clipboard - Click to add single features to the clipboard.
   • Zoom - Click to zoom to the selected feature on the map.
   • Remove - Click to remove a selected feature from the database of connected service. Applies only to read-write data. For read-only data, this button is not visible in the Action column.

   For some sources (for example, WFS), you can move features and query results to the clipboard. Features from the data window can be moved to the clipboard individually or in bulk.

   Data in the clipboard is presented on the Clipboard tab. Records in the Clipboard are grouped in tables. All records from one feature class are presented in one table.

   The following operations are possible for data in each table:

   • Remove all objects from the clipboard
   • Remove selected objects from the clipboard
   • Export selected objects to a CSV file
   • Export all objects to a CSV file

   Removing objects:

• To remove all objects from tables in the clipboard, click Remove all features from clipboard . Buttons used for removing objects are available for each table and can be applied only for data from the common table.
• To remove data from all tables in the clipboard, click Clear clipboard .
• To remove single records from a table in the clipboard, click Remove from the clipboard in the Action column.