Viewing data on the Inspect bar

The Inspect bar at the bottom of the map displays information about the map item over which you hover the mouse pointer. Configure what inspection details appear when hovering your mouse pointer over a layer item. For query layers attached to the map, you can set different inspection criteria than the parent layer on which the query was originally based. For details, see Related topics below.

To view data in the Inspect bar

1. Ensure that in the Layer Legend, inspectability is active for the layer(s) with items of interest and then using the map, hover the mouse pointer over item(s) of interest.

Attribute information for all items in all inspectable layers under the mouse pointer appears in the Inspect bar.

2. The first layer with data in the Inspect bar is highlighted on the map. Press the SPACE BAR to highlight other layers or to page through multiple items in a layer.

If there's too much detail to fit in the Inspect bar below the map, either using the Layer Legend click inspectable layers to deactivate inspection (), or drag the split bar at the top of the Inspect bar up to increase the viewing area.

You can also change the list of attributes that appear in the Inspect bar (see below).

To change the list of attributes that appear in the Inspect bar

1. From the Map menu, click Customize Inspect.

The Status Bar Inspect Setup dialog box appears.

2. Select a layer from the drop-down list for which to modify inspected attributes.
Attributes that aren't currently displayed during inspection appear in the Available Inspect Attributes pane.

3. Using the Available Inspect Attributes pane, highlight an attribute, and then click to move it to the Chosen Inspect Attributes pane. Click and arrows to change the left to right order in which the attributes appear in the Status bar where moving the item up moves it left in the Inspect bar and moving it down moves it right. Click to move attributes out of the Chosen Inspect Attributes pane. Click or to move the entire contents of a pane.