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Label Properties Dialog Box Label Information |
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Name |
Default is <label feature class name> Label: You can change the default value to any clear name. The label name is displayed in the explorer tree views and the Choose Label Definition dialog box. It is saved in TB_LABEL_DEF.NAME. The label name can have up to 255 characters and may contain blanks (and special characters). |
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Automatically Create Label When Feature Is Created |
Creates a label upon feature creation. These labels are called Auto Labels. |
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Label Is Active |
Specifies that the label is displayed by the label placer. Selected by default. Clear this check box if you do not want to display this label for selection with the label placer . |
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Content To Display (Select Statement) |
Specifies the text to be displayed by an SQL select statement. Default statement: select FID from <table name> where FID = $ID This statement returns the FID. The easiest change is to replace the column name FID with the name of another attribute that you want to display as label text. See also Label Select Statements. |
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Assistant button |
Opens the SQL Assistant. Optionally, you use the SQL Assistant to create SQL expressions. See Creating SQL Expressions. |
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Display NULL If The Select Statement Returns NULL |
Creates an "empty" label even if there is no corresponding value in the feature table. If necessary, you can update the data for these labels later, using the Update Label Texts command. If this check box is cleared and the select statement returns nothing, no label record is created. |
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Prefix/Suffix |
Standard text included before or after the selected text, such as an abbreviation or a unit of measurement. For stylization in Display Manager see To style an annotation layer. Alternatively you can use the CONCAT statement in the label SQL select statement. |
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Parent Geometry (Select Statement) |
Defines the auto labels for attribute feature classes. See also Label Geometry Select Statements |
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Sample Text |
Optionally displays a sample text. Enter an example of label text. |
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Regeneration Definition |
Defines regeneration rules for label definitions. See also Label Properties: Regeneration Definition |