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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Andy is correct. Using the “external files/unmanaged
feature sources” and the “old manual way of doing it” is
essentially the same thing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>When the server encounters a feature source with external
file/unmanaged data aliases, it replaces it with the actual locations. At this
point, there is no difference between the “external files/unmanaged
feature sources” and the “old manual way of doing it”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Tony Fang<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris
Gountanis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 01, 2007 3:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'MapGuide Users Mail List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [mapguide-users] Configure External Files in Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>So the unmanaged SHP file feature source issue will follow MGOS 1.2
Beta2 and MapGuide Ent 2008 if not fixed. It is good they have included it in
the new Autodesk Studio. Hope Autodesk helps with the solution here. We have
many ESRI customers that like the looks of MapGuide but do not know what SDFs
are </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Just making sure… thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:darkblue'>Chris</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andy
Morsell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 01, 2007 3:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'MapGuide Users Mail List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [mapguide-users] Configure External Files in Administrator</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>That's what I've been referring to as unmanaged feature sources all
along and where I have seen the performance problems. In the Trac ticket,
it looks like you were referring to the old manual way of doing it - but I
believe they are essentially the same thing. For more info on the newer
functionality, see <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc2">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc2</a> and
<a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc12">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc12</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Andy </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris
Gountanis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 01, 2007 1:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'MapGuide Users Mail List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [mapguide-users] Configure External Files in Administrator</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Will those aliases have the same issues with unmanaged SHP files?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:darkblue'>Chris</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andy Morsell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 01, 2007 3:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'MapGuide Users Mail List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [mapguide-users] Configure External Files in Administrator</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>I may be wrong on this, but I think you have to also have Studio
2008 beta in order to see these new features exposed. When you create a
new Data Connection in Studio, you can now choose the SHP or SDF providers and
then configure that feature source to point to a file or folder. The
files or folders visible to choose from come directly from external file
aliases.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Andy
Morsell, P.E.</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Spatial
Integrators, Inc.</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.SpatialGIS.com">http://www.SpatialGIS.com</a></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris
Gountanis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 01, 2007 1:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'MapGuide Users Mail List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapguide-users] Configure External Files in Administrator</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Anyone
have any information of links on how to use the section “Configure
External Files” within the MapAdmin pages? I have created one for SHP,
SDF and Raster and when I load Studio I don’t see them. How do you use
these feature sources once created as aliases?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:darkblue'>Chris</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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