[mapguide-users] Studio and moving folders...

[Kori Maleski]

Thanks Zak,

This sounds like a smart, good quick fix.

Up till now, I had been relying on my finely honed Unreal Tournament mouse
skills to rapidly rebuild themes...

Cheers,

Kori


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zak James
Sent: January 16, 2007 7:59 PM
To: mapguide-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] Studio and moving folders...

Kori, Willem,

This is probably not the solution you're looking for, but this kind of
manipulation of the resources in the repository is possible via the
php/jsp/asp scripting interface. It would be possible to build a
custom tool (to be included in a web layout) to handle this.

A more direct approach would be to use Studio to save the layer as
XML, edit the feature source reference in a text editor and post it
back to the repository via the mapagent.

Not very user-friendly, but until Studio or web studio are enhanced to
handle this, those are the options I can see.

zak

On 1/16/07, Kori Maleski <Kori.Maleski at websoftdev.com> wrote:
> It would also be nice to be able to:
>
>
> 1 - Copy a layer that has themes and save it as a new layer.
> 2 - Load a new Feature Source that has identical file/db structure.
> 3 - re-assign the new layer copy's feature source to the new feature
source
> and preserve all themes.
>
>
> Circumstances it would apply:
>
> Creating a very complex themed layer on a file containing a subset of
data;
> and wanting to create an identically themed layer on a full set of data
> without having to painstakingly recreate all themes.
>
> Essentially you are creating a new layer and swapping the datasource.
> This was something you could do in 6.5 and cut off hours of cartographic
> prep.
>
> ******
>
> A save/load themes function in Studio would be a dream.
>
> A save/load colour palette would be an additional bonus.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>
> Kori Maleski
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Willem
Schwarte
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:35 AM
> To: mapguide-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapguide-users] Studio and moving folders...
>
> It would be nice if you could move a folder to another subfolder and be
> able to keep theming rules.
>
> If I try to move a folder, now the reference is broken, and if I
> re-attach the correct feature resource, all theming is lost.
>
> When I move the folder back to the original position in the tree, then
> the theming is back to how it was.
>
> So I'm assuming that somewhere there is a file that describes the
> theming for a layer at a specific position in the tree, or of a specific
> resource at a specific location. So if you moved a folder, this file
> should be updated to the new position.
>
> Or is it already possible to keep theming rules while moving layers?
>
> Willem
>
>
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