Simple GIS Client Software Tutorials
Customizing Simple GIS Client
Welcome to Simple GIS Tutorials page. The following tutorials demonstrate some of the many options for customizing your Simple GIS Client project. While some customizations require writing scripts in VB, other customization require no coding at all.
Please Note
Many of the tutorials here were created on version 13 or earlier versions of Simple GIS Client. While many of the principles remain the same, several of the dialogs have been re-designed in version 14 and may look different than the ones shown in these tutorials. We will be updating with new tutorials soon.
Customizing Simple GIS Client Projects
Description
- This video tutorial will demonstrate customizing your Simple GIS project file by writing custom VB procedures. It will also demonstrate customizing menus, creating plugin extensions, and loading plugin extensions
Topics Covered
- Creating a new VB module and writing your first VB procedure
- Adding new custom menus to your projects and attaching VB procedures to your new menu items
- Debugging VB procedures
- Creating a new plugin extension
- Loading plugin extensions into your Simple GIS projects
Creating Custom Data Forms in Simple GIS Client
Description
- This video tutorial will demonstrate creating custom data forms in Simple GIS Client for visualizing and editing feature attribute data
Topics Covered
- Creating a custom data form using the visual form designer in Simple GIS Client
- Linking documents using the custom data form functionality in Simple GIS
Adding Linked Tables to Custom Data Forms in Simple GIS
Description
- This video tutorial will demonstrate how you can add a linked table control to your custom attribute data form for your shapefile or vector layer in Simple GIS Client to display related records from an external table. It will also demonstrate how you can graph field values from an external linked table into a bar chart on your custom attribute data form.
Topics Covered
- Adding linked table controls to a custom data form in Simple GIS
- Graphing data from a linked external table to a bar chart on a layer's custom data form
Designing Custom Pop-Up Forms for Linked Tables
Description
- This video tutorial will demonstrate how you can create a linked table to hold field inspection records for a feature and then design a custom pop-up form for this linked table to display or edit inspection records for a given feature.
Topics Covered
- Creating and linking a table on your shapefile's custom data form to hold field inspection records.
- Designing a custom pop-up form for this linked table to view and edit inspection records as well as using the new calendar control on your custom pop-up form.
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Simple GIS Software provides desktop GIS mapping, geocoding, shapefile editing, and spatial analysis tools for Windows users who need powerful geographic capabilities without enterprise cost. The software supports address mapping, census data visualization, GPS tracking, and territory creation — all running locally on your computer for speed, reliability, and data control.
Popular uses include address geocoding, sales territory mapping, government planning, infrastructure mapping, and demographic analysis.
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