Layout¶

The Layout subsection of the Settings tab controls the top-level chrome of the deployed APEx Geospatial Explorer — the design variant plus any variant-specific parameters. It is persisted on the config's layout.design field.

Settings tab — Design Variant section showing the Layout Variant dropdown and an empty Parameters row

Layout Variant¶

Pick one of the predefined UI variants from the dropdown:

Variant	Description
`fullscreen`	Map fills the viewport; layer panel and controls float over the map.
`sidebar`	Map is paired with a persistent side panel for layers, legends, and information.

Sidebar (standard) mode — layer panel docked to the side of the map:

APEx Geospatial Explorer in sidebar mode showing the layer panel docked on the left with Austria Wind Power Density at 100m active

Fullscreen mode — map fills the viewport with floating controls:

APEx Geospatial Explorer in fullscreen mode with the map covering the full viewport and the info panel floating on the right

The selected value is written to layout.design.variant.

Click the trash icon next to the dropdown to clear the design configuration entirely. When unset, the deployed Explorer falls back to its built-in default variant.

Parameters¶

Variants accept an optional bag of key–value parameters that fine-tune their behaviour. Each row maps to a property under layout.design.parameters.

Use + Add Parameter to add a new key, edit the key/value inline, and click the trash icon to remove it. Parameters are typed as strings in the UI; numeric or boolean values that a variant expects can be entered as their string representation.

URL override¶

End users can override the variant at load time via the variant URL parameter — for example ?variant=fullscreen. See URL parameters for the full list.

Schema¶

{
  "layout": {
    "design": {
      "variant": "sidebar",
      "parameters": {}
    }
  }
}

Both parameters and the entire design object are optional. The JSON config tab is the easiest place to inspect or paste in a design block.