ODM User Forum/What's New in ODM 3.6
New 'rich text boxes' and 'callout panels' on Charts
Alan Wilson
posted this on March 12, 2010 12:27 pm
You can now add 2 new types of panels to a Chart:
- Rich text boxes are an enhanced text box, where you have control over fonts, justification, lists, and can paste graphics and tables (e.g. from a Microsoft Office application).
- A Callout links a selected point/depth to a rich text box. Callout panels are used to annotate locations on maps, wellsticks, etc in a manner similar to PowerPoint. The link point is ‘sticky’ so will stay attached to the specified depth as the well stick is moved or rescaled.
To insert a Rich text box just right-click on a blank area of a Chart and select Insert > Rich text box. You can control the width of the panel by moving the bar on the right.
How to Insert a Callout...
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Right-click on the data panel where you want to link the callout back to, and select Insert > Callout. This opens the 'Rich text panel properties' dialog, where you can add the contents of the panel. Once in place, you can click and drag the rich text box to stretch the callout. Double-click on the callout itself to change its appearance, or right-click on the anchor point and select Tie > Reshape to relocate the anchor point |
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Example - part of a wellstick with Callouts, which provide outcrop analogues:
Click the link below to see a full sized copy of this chart (find this chart in the ODM3 Example Database).
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Comments
Could you point to external documents? For example a core logging report? I guess you could always just include the path in the rich text box, but it would be really neat to be able to open an attached document like you can from Well Data/References...
I'm afraid not Mike - something we are looking into.
Something we will be doing for the 3.6.1 release is the ability to specify a series of hyperlinks available for any chart object. i.e. you could specify another chart, another map or an external reference (like the references stuff).
It would be nice if you could also do this by area. For example - draw a polygon on a map and hyperlink it to an object. That would be really neat.
That is the kind of thing I have been thinking could go into a GIS editing tool. If you could create or edit a shapefile, add or edit polygons and add or edit the data fields within it then ODM could become an exceptionaly powerful document management tool. I would be a very stron supporter of developing htis functionality in a GIS form rather than having it limited to an internal ODM form.
Mike