[mapguide-users] MapGuide Open Source Web Studio

Paul Spencer pspencer at dmsolutions.ca
Mon Jun 5 21:03:26 EDT 2006 

Andy,

You will be able to load data using Web Studio.  There is support for  
it in the MapAgent via the SetResourceData operation.  This means  
that we can upload files from the client machine directly to the  
server.  However, this is not the same as a load procedure.  A load  
procedure provides much more capability:

* you can upload multiple files at one time (i.e. all the files  
associated with a shape file)
* you can convert supported files to SDF
* you can reproject files before uploading them
* you can generalize files before uploading them

While I am planning to support uploading only a single file at a  
time, it would be easy to add multiple <input type="file"> to the  
page.  The other items can not be supported using a pure web client.   
They could be supported by implementing the functions in the web tier  
or in the server.

Regarding web layouts, what I meant was that it will not support  
creating or editing web layouts in this release.  A web layout would  
not be horribly difficult to support in a future version.  The web  
layouts are not, in any way, different.

Cheers

Paul

On 5-Jun-06, at 5:44 PM, Andy Morsell wrote:

> Wow, that really does look great.  I'm confused on a couple of issues,
> though.  First, it doesn't support load procedures, etc.  I think  
> that makes
> sense for a pure web-based authoring tool, but at this point,  
> people will
> still have to use MapGuide Studio to load their data and then  
> author it with
> this tool instead?  I could see that a company may choose to have a  
> couple
> of licenses of Studio for this and other advanced functionality  
> purposes and
> then use the open source version for other folks needing to create  
> maps from
> that data.  I also imagine that others will eventually develop open  
> source
> tools for loading data without the need for Studio.
>
> Second, you say that it doesn't support web layouts.  Are the  
> webLayout's in
> the Web Studio version different than MapGuide Studio web layouts?
>
> Thanks again for developing this open source tool.  It will be very  
> useful.
>
>
> Andy Morsell, P.E.
> Spatial Integrators, Inc.
> http://www.SpatialGIS.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pspencer at dmsolutions.ca]
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 1:25 PM
> To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapguide-users] MapGuide Open Source Web Studio
>
> Hi folks,
>
> DM Solutions Group has announced Web Studio for MapGuide Open  
> Source today
> and I thought I would give you a quick overview.  Unfortunately  
> there is no
> code or live preview available just yet, but it should be coming  
> right after
> the Where 2.0 conference at the end of next week.
>
> Web Studio is being developed by DM Solutions Group for release as  
> open
> source software with MapGuide Open Source.
>
> Web Studio is a web-based tool for managing, creating and editing  
> resources
> in a MapGuide Open Source server.  It will be released under the same
> license as MapGuide Open Source (LGPL) and will be included in the SVN
> repository with MapGuide Open Source.  I would imagine that it will be
> distributed with MapGuide Open Source installers as well, although  
> I am not
> sure if that decision has been made yet.
>
> Web Studio has been developed to work in the latest (release)  
> versions of
> Internet Explorer (6), FireFox (1.5), Safari (2) and
> Opera (9), although there are some minor differences between them.
> The primary goal of this release is to enable users to get data  
> into the
> server and create/style layers and maps.  WebLayouts and other  
> resources
> won't be supported in this first version.
>
> Web Studio will not do everything that MapGuide Studio (the commercial
> desktop version) can do.  For instance, it doesn't support load  
> procedures
> or any of the associated functionality (reprojection, conversion to  
> sdf,
> generalization).  It also doesn't support creating web layouts,  
> managing
> symbol libraries and a couple of other tasks.
>
> When it is ready to go next week, this will be a BETA release of  
> Web Studio.
> It will include the following features:
>
> General GUI Features
>
> * Web 2.0 application (page never submits, uses XmlHttpRequest)
> * full menuing system, including submenus and context menus
> * integrated toolbars
> * embedded MapAgent and Site Administrator tools
> * embedded help system with contextual help in dialogs
> * moveable and resizeable dialog boxes
> * resizeable panels and frames
>
> Resource Management
>
> * log into and disconnect from any MapGuide Open Source server
> * resource browsing (tree-based) and management (cut, copy, paste,
> delete)
> * resource creation (folders, feature sources, layers and maps only)
> * editing of resources, with the possibility to have multiple  
> resources open
> at one time
>
> Resource Editing
>
> * Feature Sources
>    * creation
>    * properties
>    * upload new data files to a feature source
> * Layers
>    * creation
>    * properties
>    * change feature source
>    * change property mappings
>    * set tooltip, filter and URL properties
>    * layer styling, including scale ranges, expressions, styles  
> (point, line
> and area), feature labels and legend label
>    * preview
> * Maps
>    * creation
>    * properties
>    * edit settings
>    * manage layers in the map, including Groups, Drawing order and  
> Base
> Layers for smooth navigation
>    * preview
> * Web Layout
>    * properties
>    * preview
>
> Web Studio is all new code written by DM Solutions for this project  
> (and a
> couple of external libraries we've chosen to use).  It is entirely
> javascript and HTML with only one small server-side script used to  
> redirect
> requests to the MapAgent that you've chosen to log into.  For now,  
> this
> script is in PHP only.  It wouldn't take much to reproduce it in  
> the other
> languages (JSP and ASP) and we'll be looking for contributions on that
> front!
>
> For those anxious to see what it looks like, I've made some screen  
> grabs and
> posted them here:
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/c/cd/Ws1.png
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/2/22/Ws2.png
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/d/d0/Ws3.png
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/5/5f/Ws4.png
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/f/fc/Ws5.png
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
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