Esri Maps for MicroStrategy (v2.0.2 Archive)

In this topic
  1. Use a single color
  2. Use different colors

This is an archive related to a previous version of Esri Maps for MicroStrategy. If you need the current version go to http://doc.arcgis.com/en/maps-for-microstrategy/.

Style polygons

When you add data from your business system to a map, Esri Maps for MicroStrategy 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

  1. Press the Show map contents button to display the Contents pane.
  2. On the Contents pane, press the arrow to the right of the layer that you want to style.
  3. Press Style.
  4. Press Simple.
  5. Choose a color for the polygon features.
  6. Press OK.

Use different colors

  1. Press the Show map contents button to display the Contents pane.
  2. On the Contents pane, press the arrow to the right of the layer that you want to style.
  3. Press Style.
  4. Press Grouped.
  5. If the column you chose does not contain numeric data, do the following:
    1. From the Color scheme drop-down menu, choose the desired colors.
    2. Optionally, change the color for any of the individual categories as needed.
    3. Skip to step 9.
  6. If the column you chose contains numeric data, press 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.

  7. If you chose Number ranges from the Group column values by drop-down menu, do the following:
    1. 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.

    2. Using the Number of groups slider, specify the number of groups to use for the data. You can have between two and seven groups.
    3. 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. The default color ramps cannot be changed or edited.
  8. If you chose Categories from the Group column values by drop-down menu, do the following:
    1. Choose the desired colors from the Color scheme drop-down menu.
    2. Optionally, change the color for any of the individual categories as needed.
  9. Press OK when finished.