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Map tips provide the user with the ability to quickly retrieve information about entities underneath the mouse cursor.

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ID

weave.maptips

Properties

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
minScale	number	no	0	The default minimum scale below which no map tips will be shown to the user.
maxScale	number	no	infinity	The default maximum scale above which no map tips will be shown to the user.
radius	number	no	3	The default radius, in map units, of the area to be searched, centred on the mouse location.
pressed	boolean	no	false	This sets the initial state of the map tips. Setting it to 'true' will turn on map tips at startup.
multipleMaximum	number	no	1	If the search returns more than this many results then `multipleText` will be shown to the user instead of the results. If these many or fewer results are available then they're all shown.
multipleText	string	no	There are too many features at that location	The text to show to the user if more than `multipleMaximum` results are available.
tip	tip	yes		A tip tag must be created for each set of data that's to be made available to the user for display in a map tip.
autoSize	boolean	no	false	true/false indicating if the popup window should try and adjust its size.
minSize	size	no	105,10	The minimum width and height in pixels that the popup window should use when auto-sizing.
maxSize	size	no	1200,660	The maximum width and height in pixels that the popup window should use when auto-sizing.
size	size	no	200,200	The default width and height in pixels that the popup windows should use.
hideDelay	number	no	2000	The number of milliseconds to wait before hiding the popup window.
selectedOnly	boolean	no	false	Restrict the map tip to the selected features only.
selectedOnlyMenu	boolean	no	false	Add a menu to the map tips tool to allow the user to turn on or off the selectedOnly flag.
visibleOnly	boolean	no	false	Restrict the map tip to display only if the associated layer is turned on in the ToC. Only available since 2.5.26
visibleOnlyMenu	boolean	no	false	Add a menu to the map tips tool to allow the user to turn on or off the visibleOnly flag. Only available since 2.5.26
showGeometry	boolean	no	true	Should the geometry of the related entity be drawn. Only available since 2.5.26

Sub-Tags

tip

Name	Type	Required	Description
minScale	number	no	The minimum scale below which no map tips will be shown to the user.
maxScale	number	no	The maximum scale above which no map tips will be shown to the user.
radius	number	no	The radius, in map units, of the area to be searched, centred on the mouse location.
isDefault	boolean	no	Should be set to 'true' in the tip that should be enabled by default.
data	Data	yes, if `datadefinition` is not set	The id of a Data configuration that provides the data for this particular tip.
datadefinition	Data Definition	yes, if `data` is not set	The id of a Data Definition configuration that provides the data for this particular tip.
entity	Entity	yes, if `datadefinition` is set	The id of the Entity that the Data Definition should generate the data for.
label	string	yes, if `datadefinition` is set no, if `data` is set	The label to display as this tip in the menu. Will override the label provided by the Data if `data` is specified rather than `datadefinition`.
autoSize	boolean	no	Indicating if the popup window should try and adjust its size
minSize	size	no	The minimum width and height in pixels that the popup window should use when auto-sizing.
maxSize	size	no	The maximum width and height in pixels that the popup window should use when auto-sizing.
size	size	no	The default width and height in pixels that the popup windows should use
selectedOnly	boolean	no	Restrict the map tip to the selected features only.
visibleOnly	boolean	no	Restrict the map tip to display only if the associated layer is turned on in the ToC.
group	string	no	A map tip with a group set will be placed under a sub-menu where the text of the sub-menu item will be taken from the group value, if a group isn't specified then the map tip will appear directly in the menu. Only available since 2.5.26
template	string	no	Used to apply HTML formatting to the tip for display in the popup.

size

Name	Type	Required	Description
width	number	yes	The width of the "size", in pixels
height	number	yes	The height of the "size' in pixels

Notes

Only one of data or of data or datadefinition should be set for a tip, but one of them must be set.
The default values for tips are taken from the matching attribute in the parent tag.

Examples

Code Block

xml

language	xml	linenumbers	true

<item action="weave.maptips">
	<tip>
		<data>property_details</data>
		<isDefault>true</isDefault>
	</tip>
	<tip>
		<data>road_details</data>
	</tip>
</item>

Code Block

xml

language	xml
linenumbers	true

<item action="weave.maptips">
	<multipleMaximum>2</multipleMaximum>
	<multipleText>Too many features</multipleText>
	<minScale>1000</minScale>
	<maxScale>50000</maxScale>
	<radius>3</radius>
	<tip>
		<data>property_details</data>
		<isDefault>true</isDefault>
	</tip>
	<tip>
		<data>road_details</data>
	</tip>
</item>

language

Code Block

xml

language	xml	linenumbers	true

<item action="weave.maptips">
	<pressed>true</pressed>
	<tip>
		<label>Property</label>
		<entity>property</entity>
		<datadefinition>property_details</datadefinition>
		<isDefault>true</isDefault>
		<minScale>1000</minScale>
		<maxScale>10000</maxScale>
	</tip>
	<tip>
		<datadefinition>road_details</datadefinition>
		<entity>roads</entity>
		<label>Road</label>
		<radius>5</radius>
		<minScale>250</minScale>
		<maxScale>1000</maxScale>
	</tip>
</item>

Code Block

xml

title

Adjusting the size of the popup

title

Code Block

language	xml

<item action="weave.maptips">
	<autoSize>true</autoSize>
	<minSize width="100" height="100"/>
	<maxSize width="200" height="400"/>
	<size width="150" height="150"/>
	<tips>
		<tip label="Property" entity="property" datadefinition="property_details" isDefault="true"/>
		<tip label="Image" entity="property" datadefinition="property_images">
			<maxSize width="800" height="800"/>
		</tip>
	</tips>
</item>

Code Block

Formatting the text in the popup

Code Block

language	xml

<item action="weave.maptips">
	<tip>
		<data>property_details</data>
		<template><![CDATA[<div><h1><i>ADDRESS DETAILS:</i></h1>{address_num} {street_name} {street_type}<br>{suburb}</div>]]></template>
	</tip>
</item>

Map tips with groups

Code Block

language	xml	title	Map tips with groups

<item action="weave.maptips">
	<tip>
		<data>property_details</data>
		<isDefault>true</isDefault>
		<group>Property</group>
	</tip>
	<tip>
		<data>property_summary</data>
		<group>Property</group>
	</tip>
	<tip>
		<data>property_owner</data>
		<group>Property</group>
	</tip>
	<tip>
		<data>road_details</data>
	</tip>
	<tip>
		<data>serwer_details</data>
		<group>Sewer</group>
	</tip>
	<tip>
		<data>sewer_summary</data>
		<group>Sewer</group>
	</tip>
</item>

The above example will result in a menu like the following

Property
- Property Details
- Property Summary
- Property Owner
Road Details
Sewer
- Sewer Details
- Sewer Summary

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Key

ID

Properties

Sub-Tags

size

Notes

Examples

Adjusting the size of the popup

Formatting the text in the popup

Map tips with groups