If you have the required permissions, this feature allows you to display the list of documents associated with one or more selected map elements. You can also access these elements as well as modify their metadata and associations with map elements.
Select one or more map elements in one or more layers.
Click on the List Associations by selection button. A window titled List of associations is displayed. This window is dynamic and its content is automatically refreshed when you select and unselect map elements. When no elements are selected, the window is empty.
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The selected map elements. You can use interactive selection tools, attribute selection queries or spatial queries to make your selection. The selected map elements can belong to different layers.
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The name of the document depot. More than one depot can be open, based on the selected elements.
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The fields in the table correspond to the metadata of the documents listed in the rows. The metadata is configured by the JMap administrator for each document depot.
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Information on the number of documents found, listed, and selected, is displayed in the header of the List of associations.
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This button opens the document in the application defined by default. You can also open the document by double-clicking on its row. The document is saved in a temporary directory. You can only open one document at once using this method.
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This button allows you to download the document. You can select and download several documents at once; the set of documents will be saved in .zip format in the directory of your choice.
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This button allows you to export the List of associations to an Excel spreadsheet.
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This button allows you to filter the documents based on the values of each metadata element.
Click on a document in the table to select it. Specific functions will be enabled.
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Clicking on the row of a document will select it.
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This pop-up menu will open when you right-click on the document. It offers features to work with the document.
Click on Document information in the pop-up menu to access the document's metadata. The Document information window opens. It contains two tabs: Document info and Associations.
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The Document info tab.
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The file depot that allows you delete the document in the depot or replace it with another document.
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The file name of the document.
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A description of the document may be provided to complete the information. You can modify it if you have the appropriate permissions.
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The document's metadata. You can modify the metadata if you have the appropriate permissions.
The Associations tab displays the map elements associated with the document. It also allows you to delete and add associations, if you have the appropriate permissions.
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Check the boxes to select all the elements associated with the document, or uncheck them to unselect them.
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Filter for the map elements associated with the document.
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Each element is identified by its unique identifier, its spatial data source, and the layer it belongs to. Double-click on the element to centre it in the map and make it blink. To be deleted from the association, the map element must be selected by checking the box.
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You can delete the document's association with the selected map element(s).
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You can associate the document with other map elements.
Click on Associate to associate new map elements with the document. The Associations update window displays. This window is similar to the elements explorer in JMap Pro.
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Each tab corresponds to a layer containing selected map elements.
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Information on the number of selected map elements and the number of layers they belong to.
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These tools allow you to sort map elements, centre a specific element in the map, and export the elements to an Excel file. These tools are similar to those of JMap Pro's elements explorer.
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Available features: add associations containing the selected elements to the existing associations, or replace existing associations with the associations containing the selected elements.
Right-click on a document to open the pop-up menu.
Click on Show on the map to centre the elements associated with the selected document in the map. The elements blink for easy viewing.
Right-click on a document to open the pop-up menu.
Click on Copy Value. The value of the metadata you clicked on (in the column where you clicked) is copied to the clipboard and can be pasted to documents of various formats.