In release 2020, Attribute Viewer & MapTips provides a new approach to “Feature Attribute Viewing.”

• MapTips provides a tooltip that displays configured layer attributes when hovering over features on the map.

While the

• Attribute Viewer Map Tool is an easy and convenient way to identify Layers and Attributes on the map

Attribute Viewer is shipped with a MIMS Configuration MIMS Mobile plugin to make feature layer field selection easier.

More information:

• https://mimsportal.sspinnovations.com/home/attribute-viewer
• https://mimsportal.sspinnovations.com/home/configure-mims-mobile-attribute-viewer

In releases prior to 2020, the Identify Tab and Map Tool is the only method to view feature attributes.

By default, the Identify Tab panel will automatically search the extent of the map layer when the map extent is relocated. This means moving the map extent with a drag or swipe may result in slower than normal performance when the map extent contains many exposed feature layers.

IdentifyConfiguration.xml AutoSearch Tag can be configured to inform the Identify Tab panel whether auto-search is enabled as you pan around the map.

If set to “false” <AutoSearch>false</AutoSearch>

How does this help?

• Improves performance – stops Identify from initiating searches on every map refresh, especially when users frequently rapid-pan to navigate around the map before the previous search is complete.
• Maintains a list of selected Identify features instead of refreshing on map extent change. Some users prefer this to auto-updating.

Documentation on the configuration and use of this tag is available here: https://mimsportal.sspinnovations.com/home/mims-mobile-bac8eb0-identify-panel

IdentifyConfiguration.xml

<AutoSearch>true</AutoSearch>
   <!-- - Allows MIMS Mobile to search in the Identify Panel. -->
<AutoSearch>false</AutoSearch>
   <!-- - Prevents MIMS Mobile from automatically searching while in the 
   Identify Panel, message on the left pane says "Automatic search is 
   not available". -->

Note the MaximumSearchScale and MaxResultsPerLayer tags above AutoSearch in the IdentifyConfiguration.xml.

MaxResultsPerLayer –The default feature limit is 1000 features. Changing this tag will further limit or expand on the number of features listed. This is useful to improve performance for feature dense data sets.

MaximumSearchScale – The default extent when Search is enabled is 10,000. Changing this tag will change the characteristics of when the search is evoked in the Identify Tab. The lower the number, the closer map extent must be reached before the search is enabled. This can improve performance for feature dense data sets.