Basic Map Screen (BMS) Editor icons

The following icons are commonly seen in the BMS Editor palette, the Outline view when a map is open in the BMS Editor, and the BMS Editor toolbar.

BMS Editor palette

The following icons are commonly seen in the BMS Editor Palette.
Table 1. BMS Editor palette icons
Icon Description Icon Description
Icons found in the Default drawer
Selection tool icon Selects a single field in the Design Page. Marquee tool icon Selects multiple fields in the Design Page.
Icons found in the Basic drawer
Insert map icon Inserts a map into the map set.    
Icons found in the Constant fields drawer
Column heading icon Creates a column heading in the active map. By default, column headings are blue. Help icon Creates a help field in the active map. By default, help fields are green.
Instructions icon Creates an instructions field in the active map. By default, instruction fields are blue. Label field icon Creates a label field in the active map. By default, label fields are blue.
Title field icon Creates a title field in the active map. By default, title fields are blue.    
Icons found in the Variable fields drawer
Input field icon Creates an input field in the active map. By default, input fields are green with highlighting set to underline and include stopper fields. Numeric field icon Creates a numeric field in the active map. By default, stopper fields are included and initial values are blue.
Password field icon Creates a password field in the active map. By default, password fields are green with highlighting set to underline and include stopper fields. Message field icon Creates a message field in the active map. By default message fields are red.
Output field Creates an output field in the active map. MDT field icon Creates a modified data tag field in the active map.
Icons found in the Advanced drawer
Labeled input field icon Creates a label field followed by an input field with a stopper field. Array icon Creates either a simple or complex array.
Structure field icon Creates a structure.    

BMS Editor toolbar

The following icons are commonly seen in the toolbar on the Design Page of the editor.
Table 2. BMS Editor toolbar icons
Icon Description Icon Description
Toggle grid lines icon Toggles the grid lines in the BMS Editor on and off. Toggle sample values icon Toggles the initial values that are specified for each field on and off.
Toggle black-and-white mode icon Toggles the editor between black-and-white mode and color mode. Change zoom level icon Zooms in and out in the BMS Editor.
Change map filter Accesses filters that are defined for the active map set.    

Outline View for BMS maps

The following icons are commonly seen in the Outline view when a map is open in the BMS Editor.
Table 3. Icons in the Outline view
Icon Description Icon Description
Mapset icon The map set Map icon A map that is part of the map set
Protected field icon A protected field in a map An unprotected field in a map