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SMS Basic and Advanced Manual
2. Go to the Map menu and select Edit Legend or click on the Edit Legend button in the upper right hand
corner above the Legend Window in the Layer Window.
3. The Edit Legend dialog will now appear. Select the options that you would like to change and make your
changes. To edit range values click on the cell that contains the range to be edited and type in the new
value. The software will provide feedback if the entered value is not valid. To change the color for a range,
double-click on the color you want to change and the Color Selection dialog will appear. Make your selection
and click OK.
4. Once you have made the desired changes to the legend, you can either apply the change or save the edited
legend and set it as a default. If you would like to save the legend, click the Save button, enter a name for
the legend or select a legend from the list to replace and then click the OK button. If you would also like to
save the legend as a default make your selection in the Default Selections area before clicking OK.
5. Now click the OK button on the Edit Legend dialog to return to the main map and view the edited legend.
How to freeze a boundary.
Follow these steps to set a boundary for the Spatial Sorter and also to prevent the adding of more area to the
boundary:
1. Select a Field from the Management Tree that you would like to freeze the boundary for. You can also select
at the Grower and Farm levels to freeze all the Field Boundaries below the selection. Batch Freezing of
multiple Growers and Farms can also be done through the Batch Command Utility.
2. The boundary area map should appear in the preview window. If the boundary is representative of the actual
field area and is complete, click the right mouse button with your cursor positioned inside the Management
Tree Window. Select Freeze Boundary.
3. The boundary in the Preview Window should be replaced with a new boundary that has a black border
around its edges and also around internal regions that show up as holes. This boundary can now be edited
by creating a map of it and selecting Edit Layer from the Map menu or the Edit Layer icon from the Map
Window Toolbar.
Note: The frozen boundary will not automatically update if new data from that field is read into the system. If this is the
case or you would like to return to the automatic boundary then select the Field and then the Crop/Product level that
you would like to base the auto boundary off of, click the right mouse button and select Regenerate Boundary. The
boundary will now be based off the selected dataset, and will update if new position information for this field, that is
currently not covered, is read in. Doing this also removes this Field from those that will be spatial sorted, so use
caution when doing this if you have used the Spatial Sorter in the past on the selected field.
How to create a new attribute.
Follow these steps to create a new attribute:
1. Go to the Tools Menu and select Attribute Editor.
2. The Select Attribute dialog will now open.
3. Click the Add New button to create a new user-defined attribute.
4. The Attribute Editor dialog will now open.
5. Enter a name to be used to identify the attribute, such as Soil Compaction if you had data from a soil
compaction sensor to import.
6. Now select a Data Type from the available list of options. For a description of the various data type options
for an attribute go to the help for the Attribute Editor.
7. Depending on the Data Type that was set you will be required to either set a Display Type, Dimension and
Display Units, or none of these in the case of a Text data type.
8. Now set whether or not the new attribute should be mappable. Check the mappable box to make the new
attribute available to map from the Layer Window when you map a dataset or management item that
contains the attribute.
9. Lastly, set whether or not you want totals to be displayed in summaries,etc for the attribute and if so what
units the totals should be displayed in. So your logged values for each point can be shown in one unit and
the totals amounts of all the values can be shown in another more appropriate unit.
10. Click OK once all the settings have been made above to create the new attribute.
11. Click the Close button to exit the Select Attribute dialog.
How to create a new property.
Follow these steps to create a new property:
1. Go to the Tools Menu and select Property Editor.
2. The Select User Property dialog will now open.
3. Click the Add New button to create a new user-defined property.
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