Style polygons
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When you add data from your business system to a map, Esri Maps for IBM Cognos creates a layer and displays the data using a default style. These layers, and certain layers added from ArcGIS, can be styled using different symbols, colors, and grouping.
One way to style a polygon layer is using a single color to represent all of the features in the layer. Another way is to divide the polygon features into groups and style each group with a different color. For example, you might want to use different colors to denote sales territories classified by revenue range.
As you modify the style options for your layer, the map automatically updates to reflect your settings.
For more information on styling layers, see Feature display and style.
Use a single color
- In the Contents pane, click the Configure layer button
beside the layer that you want to style. - Click Style.
- Choose a color for the polygon features.
- Click OK.
Use different colors
- In the Contents pane, click the Configure layer button the layer that you want to style.
- Click Style.
- Click the On/Off selector beside Style by column? to turn on group styles.
- From the Choose column to group drop-down menu, choose the column you want to use for grouping.
- If the column you chose does not contain numeric data, do the following:
- From the Color scheme drop-down menu, choose the desired colors.
- Optionally, change the color for any of the individual categories as needed.
- Skip to step 9.
- If the column you chose contains numeric data, click the Group column values by drop-down arrow and do one of the following:
- Choose Number ranges to classify values into groups by numeric order and assign a group style.
- Choose Categories to assign a style to each unique value.
You can style up to 50 features with unique values.
- If you chose Number ranges from the Group column values by drop-down menu, do the following:
- From the Classification method drop-down menu, choose the desired grouping method.
For additional information on each of these methods, see Feature display and style.
- Using the Number of groups slider, specify the number of groups to use for the data. You can have between two and seven groups.
- Choose the desired colors from the Color ramp drop-down menu. Check the Reverse colors check box to reverse the colors in the selected color ramp.
- If you want to define your own groups using manual breaks classification, adjust the groups as desired by dragging the slider bars or typing new values. To draw features with missing or out-of-range data on the map, turn on the Draw features with out of range or no value option. You can also click Legend to manually edit the labels for the groups in the map legend.
- From the Classification method drop-down menu, choose the desired grouping method.
- If you chose Categories from the Group column values by drop-down menu, do the following:
- Choose the desired colors from the Color scheme drop-down menu.
- Optionally, change the color for any of the individual categories as needed.
- Click OK when finished.