Report with inset map

Here you can find out how to add an inset map to a territory report that shows its location in Germany when there are changes in territories. A workbook is used to explain the procedure based on the Federal States.

First, drag only the map of the Federal States onto the sheet. Topographic elements are not required.

Now right click on the layer Bundesländer - Borders and select Copy from the context menu. The copied layer can be pasted back into the map via Paste in the map context menu. The double borders are needed to display the inset map.

After insertion of the borders, please color the areas. Thus the current position of the federal state, in the territory report, becomes visible in the inset map. Open the properties of the layer Bundesländer-Flächen and set your desired color.

Now drag the inset map from the control window objects onto the sheet and place them where you want them.

Gladly, the area report can now be dragged onto the sheet and set up. Here, please set the property of the environment in the output details part directly to Partially show.

The following placings/settings have been made for the map and the inset map:

The placement of the report heading has also been adjusted.

The next step is to adjust the visibility of the inset map layers in the report. For this purpose the scale ranges in the control window content are switched on first. Click on the button in the control window Content.

The following changes should be made to the area report and level settings:

Please check whether the output details of the report display the environment as Show in part.

The characteristics of the copied states borders should look like this:

In contrast, you set all other levels with the setting In reports Invisible if surroundings are partially visible one.

In the last step two zoom levels are set. Once for the copied borders and once for the originals. Set the visibility as follows:

For the copied borders the visibility should end clearly before the map scale and the visibility of the originals should begin only after that.

The figure shows the map scale with the red line and the view scale above the black vertical line. As you can see, the visibility of the copied state borders is only set up to the scale of the view and the visibility of the original borders is set below the map scale. This ensures that the boundaries are only visible in the inset map, and not in the area display in the report.

If you have an analysis in your map, you can also remove it from the inset map with the same steps. Adjust the visibility of the analysis of the visibility of the borders for the federal states:

Now you get the desired area report (viewable via the preview in the report's context menu) with a changing inset map.