Managing Overrides in Label Style Dialog Boxes

Property column

Contains label categories and label property names.

Category names (in bold text) contain a list of one or more label properties (in normal text). Click plus (+) or minus (-) next to a category name to expand or collapse the list of property names.

Value column

Displays the current value for each property. When you change the default value in this column, a check mark is displayed in the Override column.

Note

Even if you don’t want to change the default value, you can manually select the check box in the Override column to prevent the setting from being affected by changes to a higher-level setting.

Override column

Identifies whether a property is overridden at the current level. A clear check box indicates the value is the same as the higher level default setting.

A selected check box indicates that the value has been explicitly set at the current level. If you click the check box to clear it, the setting is restored to the default, higher-level setting.

You can clear the check box to clear the override and set the value back to the value of its parent setting. Even if you don’t specifically change a value, you can select the check box manually to disconnect the setting from the higher-level setting. This prevents it from changing if the higher-level setting changes.

Child Override column

Indicates that the value setting has been overridden at a lower level.

Displays when you click and removes lower-level overrides in other settings and styles when you click OK or Apply.

Important

Using this option resets the property in subordinate settings and/or styles even if they are locked.

Lock

Prevents the property value from being changed at a subordinate level. To lock a value, click to change it to . The lock cannot be set if there is a child override set.

Override All Dependencies

Selects all the check boxes in the Override column, which prevents the properties from being affected by changes to higher-level settings.

Status Update

At the bottom of the Summary tab in the Label Style Composer dialog box and in the three different Edit Label Style Defaults dialog boxes, the override status is displayed as you select an item.

Property

Displays the selected property name followed by a single line description of the property.

Parent

Displays the name of the parent from which the default value was derived. This is always the next-highest level at which the value was explicitly specified or overridden. Parents can include the following:

• Drawing Settings
• <Feature Name> Settings
• <Label Style Type Name> Settings
• <Parent Label Style Name>

For example, if you are reviewing a label style, the parent may be the Drawing Settings if none of the intermediate settings were changed. However, if an intermediate setting was changed, for example, at the feature level, then the <Feature Name> settings is listed as the parent.

Parent Value

Displays the value of the property as defined in the parent setting or style.