Creating and Editing Lists using List Editor

Aside from pointing and clicking, dragging, or querying to create lists, List Editor is another way to manage lists that provides a graphical view into the IDs within an existing list, or a list you are currently creating. Bulk import, copy, deletion can be completed. Individual IDs can be added using the Quick Search dialog box. Results can be sorted using different data attributes.

Toolbar options at the top of the List Editor dialog box and in the context menu change depending on whether you select the root node, a list, or an item in a list.

Following are the various features of the List Editor dialog box:

Use List Editor to modify an existing list or to create a list from scratch. Separate procedures of each appear below.

To create lists using List Editor

Using the Ribbon toolbar, with the Lists/Selections tab displayed, click Edit ().

The List Editor dialog box appears.

Below the display pane, select the type of list to work with (well, facility, or pipeline).
In the main List Editor toolbar, click New ().

To add list items from a file to this list, with the recipient list selected click Add List () in the main List Editor toolbar to display the Open Lists dialog box where you select the list that includes the items to add. The imported items appear in the list.

Click either of the following:

Add () - display the Quick Search dialog box where you select the domain, type the ID, and then click Search. With the item to add selected in the results, click OK. The selected item(s) from the Quick Search dialog box appears in the List Editor display pane.
Add List () - to display the Open Lists dialog box and select the list with items to add to the new list and then click Open.
To delete items, select the individual items (Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click for multiple selection) and then press the Delete key. To remove list items that match items in a file that's saved to disk, with the desired list node selected, click Subtract List (), browse to the file, and click Open.

With a list node selected, click Edit Description () to display the Edit Description dialog box.

The name of the list that appears in the Lists pane appears bold and is prefixed by an asterisk to show that the list has changed.

With either the root node or a list node selected in the List Editor display pane, click Save ( - main node, - single node) or Save As ().
With either the main node or a list node(s) selected, click Close All or Close List ().

To edit lists using List Editor

Using the Ribbon toolbar, with the Lists/Selections tab displayed, click Edit ().

The List Editor dialog box appears.

Below the display pane, click the type of list to work with (well, facility, or pipeline).
In the List Editor toolbar, click Open ().

To add list items from a file to a list already in List Editor, with the recipient node selected in the List Editor display pane, click Add List () in the main List Editor toolbar to display the Open Lists dialog box where yo u select the list with the items to import and then click Open. The imported items appear in the selected node in the List Editor display pane.

The Open Lists dialog box appears displaying the lists in the current map directory.

If the desired list doesn't appear, note the directory specified at the top of the Attach List dialog box and click Browse to navigate to a different location where the desired list appears.
To reduce the volume of lists that appear in the Attach List dialog box, hover the cursor in the top-right of a column header upon which to filter until the Filter () button appears, and then click the Filter button and select one of the following:
Custom - Displays the Custom AutoFilter dialog box with which you create a filter statement consisting of Boolean operators and logic. The logic filter you create appears in the bottom-left of the Attach List dialog box ( where you click whether to delete it, disable it, or edit it. For details on filtering and sorting rows and columns in the Attach List dialog box, see Related Topics below.
Blanks - Hides items in that particular column that have data.
Non blanks - Displays items in that particular column that have data.
A specific item that appears in the list.
For date-related filtering, a calendar control appears.
To sort the rows that appear in the grid, click the column header for which to sort the rows in ascending () or descending () order.

Select the desired file and click Open.

Depending on whether you opened a list or added the items from a list to an existing node, items in the list appear either beneath a new list node or beneath an existing list node. Hover the cursor over a list node to get summary information including the path, number of items in the list, and so on.

To add individual items to a list based on their ID, with the desired list node selected, in the main List Editor toolbar click Add (). This displays the Quick Search dialog box where you select the domain, type the ID, and then click Search. With the item selected click OK to add it.
To delete items, select the individual items (Ctrl+Click, Shift+Click for multiple selection) and then press Delete (). To remove list items that match items in a file that's saved to disk, with the desired list node selected, click Subtract List (), browse to the file, and click Open.
To copy items, select the desired items (Shift+Click, Ctrl+Click for multiple selection), or the main node of the list and then either drag the item(s) or click Copy (), and then select the recipient list and click Paste (). To move items from one list to another, Shift+drag. An item is only copied to a list once.

Drag the items to move against the top or bottom of the list display pane to scroll the list up or down, as depicted below.

To display one or more list items in a DataCard, select the desired items and click Existing DataCard () or New DataCard ().
To sort the items using criteria specific to the data type (for example, sort wells by UWI, Cum Gas, Cum Oil w/ Condensate, or License Date), select the list node to sort and from the pull down beside the sort button (), click the value by which to sort in ascending value.

With a list node selected, click Edit Description () to display the Edit Description dialog box.

The name of the list that appears in the Lists pane appears bold and is prefixed by an asterisk to show that the list has changed.

With either main node or a list node selected, click Save ( - main node, - single node) or Save As ().
With either the main node or a list node(s) selected, click Close All or Close List ().