M.App Enterprise Discussions

[jlaegel]

Hello,

Our customer would like different stylesets for one feature in the legend.
Below the legend in the Desktop App is a dropdown menu for "Alternative Symbology" (similar to the Smart Client)

When I open the dropdown menu, only the predefined styleset appears.

How can I add alternative styles in the Desktop App?
In the Enterprise Studio, i can only select one styleset for the M.App.

 

[sclow]

Hi jlaegel,

What you are experiencing and describing here is the current design of this functionality in M.App Enterprise.

Each Desktop M.app can only have a single styleset applied to it.

There is/was a product idea proposed from the community in 2018 to consider allowing multiple stylesets/legends to be associated to a single M.App. This idea was declined and you can read the reasoning for that decision in the linked post.

In my opinion you have a good idea and a few years later now, this functionality could be reconsidered. If you like, you may comment on that existing post or submit a new product idea for this functionality.

HTH

sclow

[jlaegel · Accepted solution]

Hello sclow,

Thank you for your reply.
I suspected that a optional styleset in the Mapp isn't possible.

I found a database side way to add an alternative Symbology.

Our Solution:
works in SQL-Server in the tenant's database.

An another alternative Symbology can be added with the following SQL command

Insert MAPP_APP_STYLESET
VALUES(newID(),'IDAPP','IDSTYLESET',0)

Replace IDAPP with the ID from Table "MAPP_APP"
Replace IDSTYLESET with the ID from Table "MAPP_STYLESET"

[s.rutka]

Hi @jlaegel 

that's a nice way to solve your problem. But is your user able to change this via workflow?

As @sclow mentioned it could make sense to reconsider the old idea. 

For example: Meanwhile there are some customers using the desktop app in night mode. For this reason Hexagon is going to deliver a nightmode within the next release. But how to switch the styleset from day- to nightmode? In my opinion it should be possible to change the styleset, so you must be able to add at least 2 stylesets per app.

@jlaegel  f you don't want to, I could add this as an idea for the second time to discuss this again.

Thanks

Stefan

[jlaegel]

Hi @s.rutka 

For our purposes it was sufficient that another styleset can be selected in the Desktop-App from the dropdown "alternative symbology" below the legend.

Our user change it about the dropdown-menu.

[s.rutka]

Hi @jlaegel 

thank you for your answer! We will try your workaround.

And: That's exactly what should be done without an insert in the database, but within ME Studio ;-)

Regards

Stefan

[s.rutka]

Works fine!