Ag Leader SMS Basic and Advanced Manual - Manual (Page 111)

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6. Use the provided tools to divide, delete, and/or modify the crop plan polygon region or create additional
polygons to assign products to.
7. Once you have your crop plan regions defined, you can use the Product legend to assign Products to the
polygon regions. Click the Edit Legend button to select additional products to use in your crop plan. Once
you select a Product from the legend, click the Fill Product Regions button in the toolbar or select it from the
Map menu. Then click on each region on the map that you want to assign the selected Product from the
legend to. Repeat as needed to assign all the regions to a product.
8. Once you have defined your Crop Plan regions and assigned products to them, click the Save button to
update your Crop Plan dataset.
How to edit a crop plan.
Follow these steps to edit your crop plan:
1. Select and map your Crop Plan dataset from the Management Tree.
2. From the Edit menu, click Layer… or click on the Edit Layer icon on the Map Toolbar.
3. The Crop Plan editor dialog will now appear with your product region(s) displayed.
4. Use the tools in the toolbar to make any changes or additions to the crop plan dataset. You can also add
additional Products to your legend to assign to your crop plan region(s).
5. Click Save when done to accept your changes..
How to create a generic dataset.
Follow these steps to create a generic dataset:
1. Create a new map or add a layer to a map that you intend to create generic objects off of.
2. From the File Menu, select New then Generic Layer or click the New Generic icon on the Map Toolbar.
3. The Generic Editor dialog will now appear with a copy of the layer(s) that was in the Map window.
4. Use the provided creation tools to add polygons, points, lines, circles, etc to the new generic dataset. You
can also use the Copy From Layer tool to copy an object from one of the layers that are visible in the
background.
5. Once you have drawn, copied, or modified your desired objects for the new generic dataset, click on the
Data Grid tab.
6. Now you can add an attribute(s) and then set values for each object that you have created or copied. If you
copied from another layer you had the option to copy its attributes, which will now be displayed if you chose
to copy them and they to can be edited.
7. Once you have created the desired objects, setup attributes and added values for them, click the Save
button and set the management information for the new generic dataset. Click Accept when finished.
8. The generic dataset that you created will now be mappable, have summary information, available for
generating reports and running queries on.
How to use the Average Data by Polygon Tool. (ADVANCED)
Follow these steps for using the average by polygon tool:
Note: This tool can only be run on datasets that are vector (polygon) based and this tool does not make a
new dataset, just an average of a user selected attribute is being created and added to that dataset. An
example of this would be averaging point data, i.e. yield data by polygon, i.e soil type data.
1. Create a new map and add a dataset(s) to the current map for all data desired to be used in the running of
the average by polygon tool.
2. Enter the Generic Editor and select the Copy from Layer tool and run though it, selecting the vector/polygon
dataset, and then copy all the objects into a new layer.
3. After the new layer has been created it can be used in the average by polygon tool. Since you have already
added all the other datasets into this map in step one you can now run the average by polygon tool. Click the
Average by Polygon button or select it from the Edit Menu.
4. You should now see the Average Data by Polygon Settings dialog. In this dialog you have to set the Layer
and the Attribute from the layer that you want to include in the average by polygon function and in the end it
will be added to the dataset that you just created in step 3. After you select the layer and attribute, you can
just “Add” it to the Selected Attribute list on the right side of the dialog. Once you have the layer attributes
added to the list you can click OK and then the tool will run. Depending on the amount of data and the
complexity of the vector data this could take some time, so please wait for the hourglass to go away to
indicate that the process is complete.
Note: You have the ability to create a new attribute in this dialog and remap the attribute that is
selected to a new one. A example of this would be if you want to add multiple years of yield
data averages by polygon. You can create a new attribute for each year of avg yield and just
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