Designer Layers Drilling
PropertiesConfiguring Drill
Drilling properties allow you to create a geographic hierarchy so you can navigate up and down from regions to administrative areas and even points.
Introduction to Drilling
Drill Level
Drill level is a numeric value starting at 1 as the top layer in the hierarchy. As you drill down you will move from level 1 to 2 to 3 and so on.
The top layer, enter “1”
Drill When
Currently there are 2 options for triggering a drill action.
Layer Clicked
Clicking on a Layer will immediately drill without displaying the InfoWindow
InfoWindow Icon
Clicking on a layer will display the InfoWindow and present you with a drill icon inside of the InfoWindow
Drill Parent
Select the parent layer that is one layer up in the hierarchy.
Introduction to Drilling with CMaps Analytics Designer
CMaps Analytics views natively support drilling between maps layers using a geographic hierarchy definition. Â CMaps Analytics drilling requires 2 configuration steps:1. Create geographic hierarchy with Layer drill behaviors:
For each layer, you can view Drilling properties in the "Appearance" tab.Drill Level
Drill level is a numeric value starting at 1 as the top layer in the hierarchy. As you drill down you will move from level 1 to 2 to 3 and so on. The top layer, enter "1"Drill When
Currently there are 2 options for triggering a drill action.Layer Clicked
Clicking on a Layer will immediately drill without displaying the InfoWindowInfoWindow Icon
Clicking on a layer will display the InfoWindow and present you with a drill icon inside of the InfoWindow![myLayer](http://54.177.4.57/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/myLayer-1.jpg)
Drill Parent
Select the parent layer that is one layer up in the hierarchy.![Capture](http://54.177.4.57/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Capture-1.jpg)
STEP 2. Layer Drill Keys and Properties:
To configure drilling between layers, you need to establish a data relationship, which is accomplished through a drill key definition. For example, if you click on a state and want to see city icons appear for that given state, the states layer and cities layer both need to be connected. This is the role of layer drill keys. The following example demonstrates:Layer 1: Top Layer
For layer 1, which is the top layer, we have regions east and west. The drill IDs will correspond to layer 2 drill IDs. DATA Label  |  Drill ID West Region   West East Region   East![drill](http://54.177.4.57/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/drill-1.jpg)
![drilling1prop](http://54.177.4.57/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/drilling1prop-1.jpg)
Layer 2: Child Layer
Layer 2 has a drill ID that corresponds to layer 1. So when a user clicks on "West", CMaps Analytics will automatically display only the locations with the drill ID "West" DATA Label  |  Drill ID CA   West NV   West NY   East FL   East![drilldata2](http://54.177.4.57/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/drilldata2-1.jpg)
![drillprop2](http://54.177.4.57/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/drillprop2-1.jpg)