topic Re: Assigning Annotation Colour in New to GIS Questions

Assigning Annotation Colour

MargueriteDonohoe — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:25:32 GMT

I need to assign various colours to an annotation feature based on a field value.

For example.
A field in the table called Colour that has 7 values (0, 1,2,4,6, 15, 22)
If Colour =0 black, 1=blue, 2=green, etc

Any advice much appreciated.

Re: Assigning Annotation Colour

mneer — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:48:46 GMT

You will have to "Define Classes of features and label each class differently." Each CLASS would be a different font and font color. Use the (SQL query) button to define each class. So below you see a snapshot of 3 different classes. Large Buildings get a Green font Small Buildings get a red font and so on. This all controlled via the SQL query button for EACH class below.

Re: Assigning Annotation Colour

MargueriteDonohoe — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:25:51 GMT

Thank you for the reply.

The annotation feature class was created using FME to write MicroStation DNG in this case a text layer to ArcSDE.

I don't thing labelling is an option here. I need something like Layer Properties - Symbology tab for point or polygon feature classes whereby I can use Categories to choose symbology.

The annotation layer has a field called IGDS_Colour with numeric values that represent certain colours as outlined below.

I am attaching a lpk of the layer

Thanks again