[mapguide-internals] MapGuide RFC 119 is ready for reveiw

[Sam Wang]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your feedback.

I think the override for URL is necessary. As you say, it can be avoided by IIF / CASE statements in expressions, but what if the number of features you want to override may be more than a dozen and there is no common characteristic  for these features? Then the expression can be very long which is not nice.

Thanks,
Sam

-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jason Birch
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 11:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] MapGuide RFC 119 is ready for reveiw

The overrides feel like a bit of a kludge to me, and I think could be avoided if you supported IIF / CASE statements in the expressions. Not sure if the expression engine has that support though.

I've personally never used the baked-in URLs, instead preferring to build them into the map tip using expressions.  It just seems too constraining to have a single URL and Description which, presumably, is entirely hyperlinked (like <a href="$URL">$DESCRIPTION</a>.  This is more of a general comment than RFC feedback :)

Jason

On 21 July 2011 22:47, Sam Wang wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> MapGuide RFC 119 is ready for review now. You can find it at 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/MapGuideRfc119.
>
>
> Please review and provide feedback.
>
>
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