The properties palette is located in the Left Panel.
It opens automatically when you select a geometry on the map canvas. You can also open it by clicking the spanner (wrench) icon when you have a geometry selected.
The Properties Palette UI
Basic vs Advanced Editor
Add a Property or create Custom Properties
Search the properties palette
The Drawing Layers the selected geometry is on
The selected feature’s Usages
The selected feature’s Flow Builder 2.0 Flow.
The built form properties
The appearance properties
The label properties
Any additional properties added from the +
The JSON code viewer
Basic vs Advanced View
Giraffe allows you to use hundreds of properties to fully control the appearance and assumptions of your designs. However, all of the nuanced properties are not always necessary.
The Basic properties palette view exposes 99% of what you need for day-to-day work in Giraffe. If you’re looking for something very detailed, try opening the “All” view.
JSON Editor
View and Edit the GeoJSON of an element in the in-line code editor rather than using the form view.
Properties vs GeoJSON:
Properties: The Giraffe attributes (editable)
GeoJSON: The full geolocated feature (not editable)
JSON vs Eval
JSON: The editable properties
Eval: The calculated result of the final feature (not editable)