Legends Manager Dialog

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The Legends Manager Dialogprovides various tools for creating, editing and managing legends.

The default appearance comprises a list box which displays the currently-loaded Project legends. There are check boxes which may be selected to list the System legends, User Legends and Driver legends. The Legends ManagerDialog makes extensive use of the right-click context menu for access to commands.

There are several ways of generating legends in Studio products:

You can define any type of legend using the Legends Manager.
You can create date-based legends using the Create Date Legend dialog.
You can quickly create a visualization legend using the Quick Legend tool.
You can generate a filter legend based on one or more attributes values, using the Multiple Attribute Legend tool.
Several commands and functions within Studio will automatically create (and possibly assign) legends.

Field Details:

Available Legends: displays all currently-available System, User and Project-based legend items.

New Legend...: opens the Create New Legend wizard which provides a simple method to create a new legend, and set its data type and file location.

Load Legend...: opens a file browser allowing you to select a Datamine legend file (.elg). When loaded, it will be available for editing in the Available Legends list.

Edit...: if a legend or legend item has been selected, the Legend Properties dialog is launched.

Show Details>>: if a legend or legend item is selected, the Legends Manager dialog is expanded to display the Legends Details panel.

Apply: applies the current settings and selections to the selected legend or legend item, and redraws any displayed sheets. The dialog remains open for further editing.

Close: applies the current settings and selections to the selected legend or legend item, and closes the dialog.