Data Display Preferences
Selecting the Data Display item on the left panel displays the page for setting preferences in how various data values are displayed in the desktop.
String Formatting Preferences
Display of character string data values can be limited to a fixed number of characters. Leave the setting blank to display the full content of character string data values.
Color Formatting Preferences
Color data values can be displayed using it as a background color.
Displaying the name of the color,
Displaying the red, green, and blue (RGB) component values of the color,
or any combination of the three.
Floating Point and Quantity Formatting Preferences
Display of floating point numeric values can be customized in several ways. Selecting the Use scientific notation option causes floating point numeric values to be displayed using scientific notation (for example, 9.273E4) rather than the default decimal notation (for example, 92730.0).
The number of fractional digits displayed to the right of the decimal can be controlled using the Number of decimal places option. Enter an integer between zero and ten inclusive.
Selecting the Display unit in separate column option causes measurement values to display their unit in a separate table column rather than the default of displaying the unit in the same column as the numeric value.
Separate unit column display enables sorting by unit and can help when using copy/paste to copy table rows into other applications such as Microsoft Excel. It also causes the numeric portion of the measurement to be right aligned in the column to aid in visual comparison of row values.
The Show blank for null array values option controls the display of null values in the array details popup window. Select this option to display null values as a blank entry.
Deselect this option to show the numeric value used to represent null values in the array.
Timestamp Formatting Preferences
Select the Show time when displaying a date option to display the time of day portion of timestamp values.
Deselect this option to show only the year, month, day portion of the timestamp.
Geographic Point Formatting Preferences
Select the Display point values in separate columns option to display the x, y, and z components of Point spatial data in separate columns.
Deselect this option to display the x, y, and z components of Points in the same column.
Select the Display Coordinate System in separate column option to display an additional column containing the name of the Point's coordinate system.
The coordinate system name is shown as a hyper link that pop up a coordinate system detail display window when clicked.
Deselect the Display the X/Lat value option to inhibit display of the X or Latitude portion of the Point.
Deselect the Display the Y/Lng value option to inhibit display of the Y or Longitude portion of the Point.
Deselect the Display the Z value option to inhibit display of the Z portion of the Point. Deselecting all three is not allowed.
Geographic LineString/MultiPoint Formatting Preferences
Select the Display Coordinate System in separate column option to display an additional column containing the name of the LineString's coordinate system.