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Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. iii iv Table of Contents Table of Contents ............................................................................................................. v This Tutorial ................................................................................................................... vii Ribbon Customization ................................................................................... 1 Customize Ribbon Command ....................................................................... 3 Adding Custom Commands ........................................................................ 11 Using My Workflow .................................................................................... 17 Quick Access Toolbar Command ................................................................ 25 v vi This Tutorial Tutorial Objective This tutorial will examine GeoMedia’s assortment of customization options, including the Quick Access Toolbar, My Workflow tab, and the Customize Ribbon command. Each of these can be used to design a custom interface to rearrange and/or customize the GeoMedia ribbon interface to suit your own specific needs. Tutorial Data Set The exercises in this tutorial primarily use blank GeoWorkspaces, but in some cases may reference the United States sample dataset delivered with GeoMedia Desktop. Tutorial Text Conventions There are several conventions used throughout the tutorial: Ribbon bar items are shown as: On the Aaa tab, in the Bbb group, click Ccc. Dialog box names, field names, and button names are depicted using Bolded Text. Information to be entered, either by selecting from a list or by typing, is depicted using Italicized Text. Tutorial Prerequisites None. The datasets used in this tutorial access native data formats via GeoMedia Data Servers. This tutorial can be run on all tiers. vii viii Ribbon Customization Section Objective GeoMedia Desktop provides a wide variety of commands, but when you have a specific workflow to accomplish, streamlining the ribbon interface can save a lot of time and effort. Rearranging the existing commands you need into functional groups and hiding functions which may not apply to your current objective can significantly improve your efficiency, and the addition of custom user commands can be vital to the productivity of GeoMedia. In this tutorial, we will examine GeoMedia’s assortment of customization options, including the Quick Access Toolbar, My Workflow tab, and the Customize Ribbon command. Each of these can be used to design a custom interface that rearrange and customize the GeoMedia ribbon interface to your own specific needs. Tools Used Customize Ribbon Command The Customize Ribbon command lets you add and remove custom tabs and groups, rename custom tabs and groups, hide any tab, change tab order, import/export capability, and reset the ribbon interface to default settings. My Workflow Command(s) The My Workflow set of commands allow you to customize the GeoMedia ribbon by creating your own workflow tab so that you have easy access to the specific commands you frequently use. You can quickly add and remove selected ribbon items from this tab and then save the tab as an XML file for reuse and for sharing the workflow with others. Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) Command You can improve the performance of your workflows by using the Quick Access Toolbar. This toolbar allows you to add the commands that you most frequently use from the various ribbon tabs and then to remove commands and add others as your workflow changes. 2 Ribbon Customization Customize Ribbon Command Objective: The GeoMedia Desktop provides a default Ribbon layout that is designed to provide a standard configuration for the base functionality for each of the product tiers; Essentials, Advantage and Professional. While the default Ribbon layout cannot be modified, users do have the capability to customize the Ribbon interface to accommodate their specific workflows. The objective of this exercise is for users to get familiar with the new Customize Ribbon command. Basic Ribbon customization workflows will be evaluated for building custom Ribbons, exporting and importing them and reconfiguring the Ribbon interface back to its default state. Task 1: Adding Custom Tabs, Custom Groups, and Commands The Customize Ribbon command provides the ability to create a user-defined Ribbon interface. This task demonstrates the basic workflow for establishing the foundation for a customized Ribbon user interface. 1. Invoke GeoMedia and open a blank GeoWorkspace. 2. On the Application tab , select Customize > Customize Ribbon. You can also right-click on the Ribbon and select Customize Ribbon from the context menu to invoke the command. 3 3. In the right tree-view, select the Grid tab. Click New Tab. In the right tree-view, select the New Tab node, and click Rename. Rename the new tab Lesson 1. Select the New Group node, and click Rename. Rename the new group Home. 4. In Choose commands from, select Home. 5. In the left list-view, select Select Tool (the 2nd in the list), press Add>>. 6. In the left list-view, select Display Properties, press Add>>. 7. In the left list-view, select GeoWorkspace Coordinate System, press Add>>. 8. In the left list-view, select Legends (the 2nd in the list), press Add>>. 9. Click OK, and review the results. This illustrates the basic workflow for adding a custom tab, and adding existing commands to custom tabs. 10. Invoke the Customize Ribbon command. 11. In the right tree-view, expand the Lesson 1 tab and select the Home group. Click New Group. Rename the new group Manage Data. 12. In Choose commands from, select Manage Data. 13. In the left list-view, select Warehouse Connections (the 2nd in the list), press Add>>. Many of the commands in the left list-view are listed two times. Commands that include a triangle to the right of the command name indicate a menu collection. Selecting this option will include the command selected plus all of the commands included within the menu collection. 14. In the left list-view, select Feature Class Definition, press Add>>. 15. In the left list-view, select Images, press Add>>. 16. Click New Group. Rename the new group Analysis. 17. In Choose commands from, select Analysis. 18. In the left list-view, select Queries, press Add>>. 19. In the left list-view, select Attribute Query, press Add>>. 20. In the left list-view, select Analyze Geometry, press Add>>. 21. Click New Group. Rename the new group Labeling. 22. In Choose commands from, select Labeling. 4 Ribbon Customization 23. In the left list-view, select Label Manager (the