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Customizing Your Map 6-53
Creating Network Maps
Figure 6-34. Sample Object Packager Window
3. Create an Object Package. Embed or link an entire document (or part of a
document) into the package, or build an MS-DOS command line to run a
batch file or start an application via the package; then specify the icon and
label to be used for the package. The details of how to create an Object
Package are provided in your Microsoft Windows User’s Guide.
4. Select File—>Update from the Object Packager window to save the Object
Package, and then select File—>Exit to close the Object Packager window.
5. A new embedded Object Package displays in your map, using the specified
icon and label.
Editing Object Data
To open the map object’s data in the source application that created it (or to launch the
contents of a packaged object) so that you can edit or update the object data if necessary:
1. Double-click within the object’s border.
or
Single click to select the object, then choose Edit—>Package
Object—>Activate Contents from the primary window menu bar.
NOTES
If an object has been opened from the map so that the source application is active, you will
notice that the object will be shaded in the map to indicate its active or opened state.
Before you update an object’s data, remember:
• If the object is embedded, updates to its data are written directly within the map file.
• If the object is linked, updates of its data will be written to the source document and
reflected in all links that access the source document.
• If the object is Packaged, the form in which the data is updated will depend on whether
it was linked or embedded within the Package.