[mapguide-users] Connecting to remote files using mapagent [please help]

[Jackie Ng]

1. By network, I mean a LAN that is correct.
2. I don't quite understand this question.
3. In the Site Administrator. Go to the "Add Alias" under "Configure
external files". In there add your alias and external file path.


Mansoureh Sadrykia wrote:
> 
> Hi Jackie,
>    
>   1. You asked if the remote computer is on the same network as the
> mapguide server; Do You mean a "LAN", by "network" or
> you mean the servers that we add in mapguide site administrator? You know,
> in my case the remote computers don't have mapguide installed.
>   2. Actually I can't add new servers in mapguide site adminstrator,
> and I guess that I make a mistake in defining IP addresses. Would you
> Please explain me how I can give IP addresses to different computers as
> different servers?
>    
> 3.Would you please explain me more about how to create an unmanaged alias
> in the 
> MapGuide Site Administrator to the network share? 
>   Thanks in advance
>    
>   connecting to remote files using mapguide, please help
> 
> Jackie Ng <jackie.ng at aecsystems.com.au> wrote:
>   
> Is the remote computer on the same network as the mapguide server? Are the
> shp files on a network share? If so you can create an unmanaged alias in
> the
> MapGuide Site Administrator to that network share, and be able to refer to
> that alias in your resource documents.
> 
> For example if your shp files are located at \\server\shp you can create
> an
> alias "SERVER_SHP" that you can then refer to in your resource xml
> documents
> as %MG_DATA_PATH_ALIAS[SERVER_SHP]%
> 
> So if you have a shp file called foo.shp in that network share you can
> create a feature source document that refers to it by creating a document
> that look like something below:
> 
> 
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="FeatureSource-1.0.0.xsd">
> 
> OSGeo.SHP
> 
> 
> 
> DefaultFileLocation
> %MG_DATA_PATH_ALIAS[SERVER_SHP]%foo.shp
> 
> 
> 
> 
> TemporaryFileLocation
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> - Jackie
> 
> 
> Mansoureh Sadrykia wrote:
>> 
>> Hi List!
>> 
>> I intend to use mapagent to connect to shp files in a remote computer
>> and decided to introduce the files' address, in the xml that I use in
>> mapagent as the "content". Is it possible to introduce an IP address for
>> the directory of shp files? Can map agent follow such an address and find
>> the files?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for your help; 
>> 
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