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[en] Orange polygon containing globe and two arrows pointing toward each other. Map Legend Builder Tool

[en] One Tool Example

[en] Map Legend Builder has a One Tool Example. Visit Sample Workflows to learn how to access this and many other examples directly in Alteryx Designer.

[en] Use Map Legend Builder to take the components that are output from the Map Legend Splitter tool and build them back into a legend table. If you add a Map Legend Builder tool immediately after a Map Legend Splitter tool, the resulting legend is the same as the legend output originally from the Report Map tool. The purpose of the 2 tools is that you can change the data between them and therefore create a custom legend.

[en] Configure the Tool

[en] Specify the fields output from the Map Legend Splitter tool:

  1. [en] TextField: The text you can see in the legend.

  2. [en] ImageField: Contains the report snippet with the legend image.

  3. [en] TextStyleField: The table styling elements for the PCXML table, like the alignment of the text.

  4. [en] ImageStyleField: The table styling elements for the PCXML table, like the alignment of the image.

[en] After you build the legend, you can join it back to the map or any other report elements.

[en] Usecase Example

[en] Consider the legend:

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[en] If you want to remove the repeated "Purchase Sum" from the Legend text, after using the Map Legend Splitter tool, the output looks like this:

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[en] You can remove "Purchase Sum" from the final legend by adding a Legend Builder tool. For the Text field specification, choose "ThemeBand" and the resulting legend looks like this:

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