Adding Map Legends to a Legend Designer Window - MapInfo_Pro - 2023

The procedure for adding a legend frame to a Legend Designer window is the same as for creating the legend, except that you are just adding frames to it. Do the following:

1. On the Legend Designer window, right-click to display the shortcut menu and click Add Frames. The Add Frames Choose Layers screen displays.
2. The Legend Frames list displays the map layers in your Map window that are not currently included in your legend. To exclude a layer, click the layer you want to exclude and click the Remove button.
3. Click Next. The Add Frames Frame Properties screen displays.

   Here, specify the legend window properties and legend frame defaults as you did in the Create Legend wizard. The legend frame defaults you specify here are used if there are no metadata keys in the table.

4. Click Next. The Add Frames - Frame Properties screen displays.

   The default values that display for the frame title and subtitle are taken either from the defaults you specified in Step 2, or the table's metadata. As in the Create Legend wizard, you specify attributes for one frame at a time.

   This screen works exactly the same way as choosing styles for the initial creation of the legend. You can select either a column, the Style Name Pattern (the default settings in Step 2), Expression, or Join.

5. In the Title box, type the title for the Legend frame.
6. Click the Unique Map Styles button.
7. In the Label styles with drop-down list, choose Expression. In the Expression dialog box, type or create an expression, such as the following for example:

   "Albany and Rensselaer"

   And click OK.

8. To save your frame settings to the table's metadata, click the Save frame settings to Metadata button. These settings become the new legend frame defaults.
9. Click Finish. Your legend redisplays with the added frame(s).

See Also:

Working with a Thematic Map Legend