[mapguide-users] Creating a new map from an existing layout

[George McLean]

This post is just correcting the subject line....

George McLean wrote:
>
> I have a map created in Autodesk's Mapguide Studio with feature data 
> coming from a MySQL database. I would like to use this may layout with 
> the associated feature styles and scale ranges with data from a 
> different MySQL database containing data from another region but 
> stored in a similar schema.
>
> I thought I could copy the layers, data connections etc from the 
> original and just change the data connection to the MySQL database. I 
> can create a connection to the new MySQL database but when I try and 
> change the source for the layers, I get a message that states I am 
> changing to an incompatible date resource and layer settings will 
> reset to the defaults. This of course means I lose all the feature 
> stylings.
>
> Is there a better way to reuse a given map layout and the associated 
> layer stylings with new data?
>
> Is there another way to edit the data created by Mapguide Studio that 
> might allow me to accomplish this?
>
> Is the data created by studio stored as XML or some other format?
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>
> George McLean
>
>
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