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[AWIPS #XAI-531566]: CAVE: "States/Counties" changed attributes not being preserved in Procedures or Displays

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  • Subject: [AWIPS #XAI-531566]: CAVE: "States/Counties" changed attributes not being preserved in Procedures or Displays
  • Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 09:12:06 -0600
> Hi.  Confirming that this does work on your system led us to why it is not 
> working on ours and we wish to share it with you because the cause is 
> elusive...
> 
> We recently made changes to scales in the menu.   We removed these changes 
> and reverted /awips2/edex/data/utility/cave_static/site/xxx/bundles/scales/ 
> to hold the original Regional.xml and WFO.xml files and that the only copy of 
> scalesInfo.xml was the original in /awips2/cave/etc/bundles/scales/
> 
> After exiting CAVE, deleting $HOME/caveData, and launching CAVE,  
> reperforming your steps still did not work on our system.
> 
> That is until we removed the file 
> /awips2/edex/data/utility/cave_static/user/<user>/mapStyles dir (when we were 
> troubleshooting this issue earlier today we noticed the right-click option 
> "Save Map Style" on the map legend States/Counties and tried that as an 
> option).  Apparently this is serves as an override for whatever you do with 
> States/Counties in procedures or displays.
> 
> After exiting CAVE, deleting $HOME/caveDAta, and launching CAVE, reperforming 
> your steps now WORKS.
> 
> Again - thank you for your help, it led us to the right place.
> 
> Verification question - wanted to verify that in multipanels - the attributes 
> of scale and the background color are applied to all panels, correct?


Thanks, makes sense. 

And yes, for your verification question that is correct.

Thanks,

Tiffany Meyer
AWIPS Lead Software Engineer
UCAR-Unidata

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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: XAI-531566
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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