When you create a map, you select a view for the map. This determines which measures and locations are available to you when you design the map in the Map Designer. After you create a map, map users can double-click a measure to open a section of the view with that measure as the top measure.
When you choose to customize a view, you create a new view based on the view selected in Selection Criteria. If you plan to change the customized view after you design your map, note the following:
After the map is created, changes to the customized view are not reflected in the map.
The name of the view you customized is replaced with <custom> in Selection Criteria. Therefore, record the name of the original view in the description before making further changes.
How to define map properties
1 In Navigation Pane, choose Setup➛Maps➛Create.
2 In Name:
In Name, provide a name for the map.
For Description, choose Edit and provide a description.
For Categories, choose Edit and select or create categories.
3 In Selection Criteria, select a view from the View list.
4 To create a custom view for the map, in View:
1 Choose Customize View.
2 Change the values in any of the following drop-down lists:
After the map is created, changes to the customized view are not reflected in the map.
