Hello,
I fairly new to gINT and am struggling to add a symbol from the symbol designs tab to a dropdown list of graphics. I wanted a simple triangle that I found already drawn in the symbol design tab to be added to this list of graphics:
My end goal is to have a column that displays a triangle indicating the level of the water table, and the easiest solution I found was to edit this "boxplotwatertable" tab I found, but I am open to other solutions if inserting the new graphic is not the easiest one.
This is how my plot looks when I use the Box Plot Boundary graphic:
To add the symbol to the dropdown list in the input tab you need to know what list the field is using for lookup. To find out what list is being used, Go to the data design tab and open the project you wish to modify, select the table that the field is in using the yellow pulldown (marked with red arrow in the picture below) and in the field definition dialog select the desired field (in this example I selected WELL_PIPE_TYPE). The lookup property should show the table that is being used to populate the pull down list. In the example below this is marked with a red arrow and asterisk and is Libtbl!well_pipe. Remember this.
The list being used is in a library table so now in the Data Design tab select the Library Data tab. Select the referenced list using the yellow drop down (in this case Well_pipe) see picture below. You can add your new item to this list. It should now appear as a choice in the input field pick list. Note the data structure may be referencing lists in other locations which might require a different approach.
Note that depending on how the log entity is set up that plots from this field, additional work may be required to get the symbol to plot as you want.
This is not a conventional way to plot water levels. Typically water level data is stored in separate table with fields for depth, reading date and time, and condition. A dedicated log entity is set up that plots a discrete water level graphic based on data from this table. Take a look at the examples in the gint standard us library to see how this is done.