1. ArcView Documents Francisco Olivera, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Civil Engineering Texas A&M University

2. ArcView Documents ArcView documents are the primary objects of ArcView. Each type of ArcView document stores a specific type of information. Each type of ArcView document provides a different means of interacting with the data. The ArcView documents are: Views Tables Charts Layouts Script editors

3. Views are the ArcView document where the geographic information of the digital spatial datasets is displayed. View Document Display Theme legend Table of contents Visibility Theme name View name Active theme

4. View Properties Name: the user can write the name of the View. Map units: must be set the same as the units of the datasets. Distance units: the user can choose the units in which distances will be displayed. Background color: the user can choose the background color of the View.

5. View Display Changing the display: Zoom to full extent Zoom to active Theme(s) Zoom to selected Zoom in (button) Zoom out (button) Zoom to previous extent Zoom in (tool) Zoom out (tool) Pan Display scale Cursor coordinates

6. Adding a Theme A Theme is a digital spatial dataset that has been added to a View and that has specific properties.

7. Theme Properties Definition window stores the data source, and a condition to select the features to be considered in the Theme. Text labels window stores the table field and position of the feature labels. Display window sets the maximum and minimum display scale at which the theme would be displayed.

8. Theme Display The Legend Editor is used to set the legend of a theme. In the Legend Editor the user can define: Legend type Value field Display (i.e, color, size, thickness, etc.)

9. Table Document Tables are arrays of data organized in rows (i.e., records) and columns (i.e., fields). Tables can be: stand-alone arrays of data with no geographic information included. components of digital-spatial-datasets in which each record includes a feature shape. Feature shape Table name Attribute name Tables which are components of a digital-spatial-dataset have the attribute “Shape” and are called “Attributes of ”

10. Table Properties Visible allows the user to hide/unhide table fields. Alias allows the user to display a field with a user name. Visible and Alias do not modify the table’s original data, but do affect how a table is exported.

11. Table Display Table records can be sorted in ascending or descending order based on a selected field.

12. Chart Document Charts are plots of table attribute values dynamically linked to Views and Tables. Chart name One point per table record

13. Chart Properties In the Chart Properties window the user selects the Table and the fields of the Table to be plotted.

14. Chart Display Charts can be displayed in six different formats: Area, Bar, Column, Line, Pie and X-Y.

15. Layout Document Layouts are used to communicate GIS information to non-GIS users. Layout name Legend frame Table View North arrow Text View frame Legend frame Scale bar North arrow Chart frame Table frame Picture frame

16. Layout Display A Layout can have Live links to the Views, Tables and Charts displayed in it. Live links update the Layout automatically whenever the Views, Tables or Charts are modified. Live links should be disabled when the current display of the View, Table or Chart is satisfactory.

17. Script Editor Document Script editors are text editors for writing scripts in the ArcView programming language Avenue. Avenue scripts allow the user add further capabilities to ArcView that are not available in the original GUI. Script name Avenue code

18. Script Editor GUI Scripts can be: Compiled and run Debugged Loaded from the system or from a text file, or written to a text file.

19. ArcView GUI Default pull-down menus, buttons, tools and extensions constitute the standard ArcView GUI. The ArcView GUI can be customized, which means that the user can develop his/her own scripts, define pull- down menus, buttons or tools to launch them, and consolidate them in extensions.

20. ArcView GUI Pull-down menus are controls that launch scripts that perform system functions (i.e., File/Save), or spatial analysis (i.e., Zoom to themes). Buttons are controls that launch scripts that perform system functions (i.e., File/Save), or spatial analysis (i.e., Zoom to full extent). Most buttons are shortcuts for pull-down menus. Tools are controls that launch scripts that perform spatial analysis based on additional on-screen input (i.e., Zoom in). Extensions are systems of scripts and corresponding controls, consolidated in a single entity, that can be added-in to ArcView.

21. ArcView Project ArcView Project files are text files with extension apr that can be opened with ArcView, and that store all information of the ArcView documents. ArcView Project files store how the data is displayed in an ArcView document and in which specific ArcView document. ArcView Project files contain pointers to the digital spatial data, table data and extensions used in the project, but do not contain the data or extensions themselves. However, unless a script is part of an extension, it will be stored in the ArcView Project file. ArcView Project files cannot be open in other computer unless they are “repathed” and the data are transferred with them.

22. ArcView Project