Grouping map layout fields

You can organize fields in mapping layouts into groups so that they are easier to work with.

1. Right-click inside the Memory view Renderings pane and click Manage Groups. This will open the Manage Groups dialog box. In this dialog box, you can add and remove group names for the current memory map.
2. Once you have added the memory groups that you want, you can add map layout fields to them:
   1. Select the field or fields that you want to add to a group. To select multiple fields, use the keyboard Ctrl or Shift keys.
   2. Right-click the selection and select Set Groups from the pop-up menu. This menu item will expand to a subgroup, in which you can choose the group that you want to add the field to, or you can choose to add the field to all groups.
3. After you have set the group or groups that you want to work with, you can use these group settings for filtering fields from the mapping layout for easier viewing. To do this, right-click inside the pane and select Show Group from the pop-up menu. This menu item will expand to a subgroup, in which you can choose the group that you want to display. When you select the group, it will filter out fields that do not belong to the group. If you want the pane to display all fields, make sure that Show Entire Map is selected.
4. After adding groups to the current rendered map, you can export the changes that you have made. To do this, right-click inside the Renderings pane and select Export Map File from the pop-up menu. If errors exist in the map file, you will be prompted by an error dialog and you will not be able to export the map. If there are no errors in the map file, you will be prompted to browse for the location in which you want to save the map. If you save the map to the location in which the original map resides, that map will be overwritten by the exported map.
   Attention: Grouping information is not saved in a memory map layout unless the When editing groups and descriptions, always save the changes to the file Memory Map preference is selected or you explicitly export the information to a file. Otherwise, if you have added grouping information to a rendering and then you remove the rendering without exporting the file, the grouping information will be discarded.