Help with feature label

[Anonymous]

I am having difficulty with a text feature label.  It does not seem to matter if i use a label of text as the symbol I get the word "text" on my drawing under the symbol, or next to the label.  How to I remove that?

[parkr4st]

in the style editor check to see if you have two labels or two fields.  Text shows when the field is null which you can set to show labels for non-null fields only.  You may also need to use concat to properly show the label.

posting a sample of the data and your style editor window as an image will be helpful.

dave

[Anonymous]

I dont believe there are two labels 

[ChicagoLooper]

Your text is being entered under the ‘Style’ column. It should be entered under the ‘Feature Label’ column. 

[Anonymous]

The word text shows up either way I do it.

[parkr4st]

please post a sample of the data

dave

[ChicagoLooper]

First, look at the Attribute Data. Go to Task Pane, right click the layer then click Show Data Table. Each column represents an attribute. The column heading, at the top of each the column represents the attribute NAME. You want to view this table so you know which Name to choose for your feature labels, and trust me on this, some attributes have bizarre, screwed up, weird  names so viewing the table is highly beneficial before you create any labels. You can choose any attribute to use as a feature label (see image-1).

In the Style Label dialog box, you'll choose the Feature Label from the Text dropdown. The drop down contains all the headings, or attribute Names, that appeared in the Table View. If you pick the wrong attribute, you'll get the wrong label (see image-2). Note: If the attribute column is blank, then data doesn't exist for that attribute and you won't get any labels. 

1-Right click the shapefile and click Show Data Table.2-Click this dropdown to select the attribute you want to use for your labels.

[Anonymous]

In the box you can see the name MICKLYNN FARM RD, that is the road name. However behind that is the word 'TEXT'. the word text should not be there but I cannot seem to delete it.

[ChicagoLooper]

Does the column with CONTENTS contain any values? How many Data Connections besides 'road_namesext' are in your drawing? Please upload a screen shot of the Map Task Pane.

[ChicagoLooper]

For CONTENTS column, if appears in a cell then, TEXT will be your label, but if MICKLYNN FARM RD appears, then Micklynn Farm Rd will be your label. If you are getting BOTH, then you must have two identical connections shown in the Map Task Pane: one which is generating the street name and another that's generating 'text' underneath Micklynn Farm Rd. You must delete the second data connection in the map task pane so you will have one, and only one label.

[Anonymous]

i am not aware of a second data connection

[ChicagoLooper]

Did you put 'labels' on both of these? What happens when you check just 1? What happens when you check just 2?

Which one?

[Anonymous]

roads_ext is the line data of the actual road roadnames it the point data with the name attached there is no feature lable on the roads_ext line data

[ChicagoLooper]

It's funny how AutoCAD follows our instructions even when we don't realize we are giving it instructions in the first place.

You are giving instructions to label the roads using the CONTENTS attribute and you are also giving instructions to provide a second label. This is why you are getting another label that shows TEXT. If you were actually giving it just one set of instructions, the label would be just the road name. Where the attribute's road name is NULL ,the word TEXT would appear in lieu of the road's name, but never both Null and the Road Name.  In your case, this in not happening. You are generating two separate labels at the same location.  

Go back to the Style Editor. There are four columns for road_ext: Thematic Rules, Style, Legend Label and Feature Label. The FEATURE LABEL column is where you create your road label using an appropriate attribute serving as the data source.

The STYLE column is where you select your line type, line color and line weight. This column also provides a preview of your line. You do NOT create labels under the STYLE column--if you are then you will likely get TEXT as an unnecessary label. 

Style Editor: Create your line under STYLE column. Create you label under FEATURE LABEL column.