The last step allows you to customize your thematic map, or create the map based on the default settings. You can also preview the map's legend before you display the map and change the legend's label order.
On the Create Thematic Map - Step 3 of 3 screen, the Preview field lists the value groups that this theme will display on your map. This is a sample legend of the thematic map you are creating. You can customize what displays using the following fields and buttons:
- Customize - The buttons in the Customize group change the default settings of particular aspects of your thematic map. For more information, see Customizing a Thematic Map Legend). The options are:
- Ranges - Customizes settings on a ranged map. This option is available for ranged and grid maps.
- Styles - Customizes style attributes such as color and size. This option is available for ranged, pie, bar, and individual value maps.
- Legend - Customizes your map legend. This option is available for all types of thematic maps.
- Number of Columns - Use this field to indicate the number of columns in which you want the map legend entries to display.
- Legend Label Order - Determines the order in which range and value labels (for ranged and individual values maps) and field labels (for all other thematic maps) appear in the map legend. If you are creating a ranged map, the order you specify is also shown in the Customize Range Styles dialog box. Use these entries to indicate whether the map legend entries should display in Ascending or Descending or alphabetical order. Click Custom to select a custom label order and to enable the Order button.
- Order - Use this button to display the Customize Legend Label Order dialog box. Here you can click an entry in the list and use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to properly position the label entries until they are in the order you want. Click OK to save the custom order.
- Associate Theme with Table - The options you select in this group determine the default theme display for the current map.
- Save As Default Theme View - Use this check box to save this theme to the map's metadata so that the theme you have chosen displays each time you open the map.
Note: To ensure that this feature works, you must set the Automatically Open Default Theme option in the Map Window Preferences dialog box.
- Remove Default Theme View - Use this check box to remove the saved default theme from the map's metadata.
- Save As Default Theme View - Use this check box to save this theme to the map's metadata so that the theme you have chosen displays each time you open the map.
- Template - The buttons in the Templates group enable you to specify a name for a template, save the thematic map as a template, and when modifying an existing theme merge the thematic map with another template.
- Save As - Displays the Save Theme to a Template dialog box. Type a unique name or select an existing name and overwrite it. If you overwrite an existing template, you are prompted to confirm this action.
- Merge - The Merge button is enabled only when you are modifying an existing theme, not when you are creating a thematic map.
When you click OK a thematic map is created based on either the default or customized settings.