[mapguide-users] Basic Approach

[Kenneth]

The site administrator is meant for administrative purposes, that means 
everything that is not a part of displaying / updating / editing maps 
(roughly speaking). You will create users and groups in the Site 
Administrator, but you will use MapGuide Studio (or WebStudio?) to set 
access permissions on layers and maps (right click the layer/map).

To customize the AJAX viewer, you can manipulate the templ files found in
C:\Program Files\MapGuideOpenSource\WebServerExtensions\www\viewerfiles

However, if you just disable the parts of the viewer that you dislike 
(such as the toolbar, legend, etc.) and place the viewer frame in a 
layout where you provide the missing parts, you will have an easier time 
upgrading.

If you can live with the existing toolbars and such, perhaps you can 
just provide alternative stylesheets and place the viewer in a frame 
with some custom logo.

Regards, Kenneth, GEOGRAF A/S

andresch at iway.na wrote:
> Thank you all for the feedback
> I did manage to setup the basic web map. I do believe the best way to 
> go would be to upload the shp files to POSTGIS. Postgresql also hase a 
> command to export the data back to shp. Some coding probaly required..
>
> Question: what is the purpose of the site adminsitrator function, will 
> I not be able to use that to handle the access levels.
>
> Also note that the data will be updated from time to time, which will 
> be easier if in a databse.
>
> I will be trying to setup the PostGIS links tomorrow.
>
> Customizing the default AJAX viewer screen, what is involved and which 
> files do I need to edit??
>
>
> Andre Schoonbee
> Project Manager
> Bull Information Technology
> Tel: +264 61 2092844
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Birch" <Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca>
> Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2007 6:17 pm
> Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] Basic Approach
>
>   
>>> Im not sure that there is currently write support for the Shape
>>>       
>> provider
>>
>> There is write support, but not create support (as far as I know). 
>> I
>> believe that you would have to maintain "dummy" shapefiles 
>> (possibly one
>> per geometry type), and on download request copy to a temporary
>> location, apply a schema and populate using the Feature Service, then
>> zip them together and provide the user a link.  It's not easy but 
>>     
> from
>   
>> an initial investigation it appears that it's possible.
>>
>>     
>>> There is support for PostGIS, afaik.
>>>       
>> Yes, through the OGR provider.  As well, a native PostGIS provider
>> should be available for beta testing soon.  If anyone already has
>> PostGIS set up and working with OGR and wants to test the new 
>>     
> provider
>   
>> in a somewhat unstable state, drop me a note offline.
>>
>>     
>>> Once this is done, you will need a pdf creater component to 
>>>       
>> insert the
>> image.
>>
>> PHP has a PDF library available through PECL:
>>
>> http://www.php.net/pdf
>>
>> Which allows you to insert images:
>>
>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pdf-load-image.php
>>
>> Jason
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