names for individual drawing commands

[scgcParticipant]

Can you add a feature for naming drawing commands in the command list? I make graphs that have lots of commands drawing from different datasets, and I can’t always remember which markers represent which dataset based on color and shape alone.

[kourosh kalayehParticipant]

Hi,

What I do is I put drawing commands in groups and then name the groups.

Hope it helps,
Kourosh

[dgteamModerator]

Agree!  Command groups are a solution for organizing when you have a lot of commands.

If you want to see an example the ternary graph files have groups of commands to keep similar commands organized.  Here is a screenshot of the groups for this one.  You can also use the menu to hide and or show all the commands in a group.

[scgcParticipant]

Right, I had considered this. I do like using command groups to organize the command list and keep it from getting too cluttered. But for naming single commands rather than groups of commands, this seems like kind of an inconvenient solution, especially if groups are meant in part to help reduce clutter.

Perhaps a minor benefit of assigning names directly to drawing commands would be that those names could be automatically assigned to entries in a legend command.

[scgcParticipant]

Alright, I’m pretty new at Datagraph and I just found the “Legend name” option in the drawing commands, which negates part of my previous comment.

Since this more-or-less allows you to name each command, moving “Legend name” up to the top of the command so it can be seen and edited without having to click the triangle button to open up the entire command would serve the same purpose as my original suggestion.

[dgteamModerator]

We are hesitant to add a name entry box on all the commands as it would make all the commands longer, as well as, requiring new screenshots on all the documentation — not a small task unfortunately.

Here are a couple more suggestions:

1. Have you used the Legend entry to provide a better name for the data?  We just added a new section on how to edit the legend names in this article: How to Add a Legend.
2. New in version 4.7 – Pop-up notes can be attached to any data or command object and allow you to document the source of the data and even to add html links. We just added a new article to describe this better: Notes and Comments.

Hope this helps!

 

[dgteamModerator]

Sorry we were working on updating these pages when you posted, so we posted our response without seeing your response.

Note that as shown in the How to add a legend article, you can double click the legend text on the graph to edit.  This still may not quite be what you are looking for, but then you don’t have to open the command to edit.

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