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Virtual Layers may only be used with My House and My Alerts. You may simply wish to add a link to a specific website to your My House page e.g. NHS Services or configure a General Alert in My Alerts.

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In this example you would right click on the layer group say for Heath and Social Care and select to Add Virtual Layer. Then in the Row Settings at the bottom select the  and add the information that you wished to be displayed including any html.

Layer Attributes

Display Name

If you do not want to display any name for this virtual layer then enter an underscore here. 

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Note

The Display Name must not start with a number and can only contain alphanumeric characters, underscore, hyphen or spaces. Maximum length 32 characters.

Layer Name

Enter a unique name for the virtual layer.

Custom output

Please see the see My House Layer Custom Output topic for  for details. 

MyAlerts Rule

These rules are only available for a My House Layer if My Alerts has been configured.  

All record changes

If checked no My Alerts rules will be applied to the Layer and changes to the number of records within the layer, if a new record is added to the layer or if an existing record is removed from the layer, will trigger an alert. E.g. a new school is added to the Primary Schools layer. If you uncheck this entry then the other three entries become enabled.

Change in number of records

If you check this entry then an alert will only be triggered if the total number of records within the layer changes.

New records

If you check this entry then an alert will only be triggered if a new record is added to the layer.

Removed records

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Please see My Alerts Layer Rules for details.

Lookup Datasource

If you wish to lookup information from a Datasource then select how you wish to

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Select the Property radio button to lookup the Datasource by UPRN. Now select the Name for the DataShare entry for you require; in this case CTax_Banding. This shows all the information regarding council tax matching the UPRN of the selected address. E.g.

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Select the Row radio button if you wish to return all the rows in a datasource such as an RSS Feed. Select a the relevant Name for the Datasource you wish to use. Now you just need to format the information to be displayed by entering something like the following in the Row Settings.

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