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====== Map Items Activating ======

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Activating a map item means above all displaying it on the map. There are two categories of map items activation:

===== Temporary activation =====

There are several options:

  * **tapping**{{:manual:user_guide:ic_hide_alt.png?nolink&30}}**on the item line in folder**  - the icon changes to {{:manual:user_guide:ic_visibility_alt.png?nolink&30}}but you are not moved back to the map screen - you stay to activate more items \\ {{  :manual:user_guide:items:items6.png?nolink&  }}
  * **tapping map preview box in the map item detail screen**  - this brings you directly to the main screen with the item centered on the map
  * **tapping {{:manual:user_guide:ic_visibility_alt.png?nolink&30}}in the map item detail screen**- the icon changes to {{:manual:user_guide:ic_hide_alt.png?nolink&30}}and you stay in the map item detail screen. \\ {{  :manual:user_guide:items:items7.png?nolink&  }}
**Re-tapping reverses this procedure - the map item is hidden.**<WRAP center round tip> Some items can be temporarily activated also by an ordinary **[[:manual:user_guide:functions:data_import|import]]**with the option //Only display//  checked. All temporarily activated objects can be removed by the //Hide temp map items//  in the Map items topbar menu. </WRAP>

Active items can be browsed in **Active items**  part of the **[[:manual:user_guide:mainscr_lpanel|Content panel]]**. You can clearly view what items are loaded, browse their folders and you can easily change their opacity by selecting and moving the slider. **[[:manual:user_guide:mainscr_lpanel#active_items|More info >>]]**

===== Permanent import =====

Select **Import**  from the item action menu: \\ {{  :manual:user_guide:items:items8.png?nolink&  }} \\ Locus Map screens the imported file and designs the import dialog according to its content - points, tracks or both. Then the process goes on like in the [[:manual:user_guide:points:import|points]] or [[:manual:user_guide:tracks:import|track import]] and imported objects appear on the map and in the folder structure of point resp. track tabs of the **Data manager**.