[mapguide-users] Layer Visibility

[Paul Spencer]

Chris,

this is unfortunately one of the nastier problems with mapguide.  It  
is a 'selling feature' compared to other OS mapping engines, but in  
reality it doesn't actually work the way you might think it would.   
There is no direct way to deal with this.  It would be quite a lot of  
effort to develop scripts to work around this.  The most practical  
solution at this point in time is to make your layers readable by  
everyone and create duplicate map definitions with sets of layers  
based on group or user privileges.

Paul

On 4-Oct-07, at 11:12 AM, Chris Tallman wrote:

> Has anyone played around with being able to control what layers are  
> visible based on User or Group?  It would nice to control if a user  
> or group can see a specific layer.  Is there an easy way to do  
> this?  I was playing with the permission tab on the layers, however  
> if you change it so the logging in user doesn't have permission to  
> that layer all you get is an error message saying you don't have  
> permission to whatever specific layer.  What would be nice is if  
> there is a layer a user doesn't have permission to see, the map  
> just skips that layer when the map is being built.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions I'm listening.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Tallman
> Director of GIS Operations
> Innovation Mapping, LLC
>
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