[mapguide-users] Query String Auto-Login with Fusion or Flexible Layouts

[Andy Morsell]

I'm not sure the concepts of Fusion on the file system versus the MGOS
repository is really documented anywhere.  Here's the idea: the Fusion
templates reside in the
mapguideopensource/webserverextensions/www/fusion/templates/mapguide folder.
You can copy one of these templates somewhere, such as /www/myTemplate and
then modify the index.htm and ApplicationDefinition.xml file specific to
your project.  Then, you can open the Fusion layout directly from the file
system via a URL like: http://localhost/mapguide/myTemplate/index.htm.  This
requires that the map definition be hard-coded into the appDef, so I wrote a
patch to fusion that allows you to pass an MGOS map definition as a URL
parameter.  This works very well for one of my clients applications.
Details can be found here: http://trac.osgeo.org/fusion/ticket/65
 
On the other hand, if you use Autodesk MapGuide Studio 2009 and define new
"Flexible" layouts, it uses the Fusion templates as the basis for your
layouts, but is internally storing the ApplicationDefinition information in
the repository for that layout definition.  That is why the standard MGOS
challenge / response is issued when calling a Fusion layout like:
http://localhost/mapguide/fusion/templates/mapguide/slate/index.html?Applica
tionDefinition=Library%3a%2f%2fSamples%2fSheboygan%2fFlexibleLayouts%2fSlate
.ApplicationDefinition
 
Here are a couple of the older threads on these topics:
http://www.nabble.com/Fusion-security-(or-lack-of)-to17496378.html#a17496812
http://www.nabble.com/Fusion---one-AppDef-many-maps-best-approach--to1721395
1.html#a17213951
 
Andy Morsell, P.E.
Spatial Integrators, Inc.
www.SpatialGIS.com
 
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[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Rock Beans
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 1:19 PM
To: MapGuide Users Mail List
Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] Query String Auto-Login with Fusion or
Flexible Layouts
 
Can you send me the links to this concept? I am trying to help a basic user
that does not want to get to deep but if it is easy to implement why not.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Andy Morsell <amorsell at spatialgis.com>
wrote:
No, that does not work with Fusion.  There were some threads on this a
couple of months ago that might be worth perusing.  The short of it is that
if you call a Fusion appDef from the file system, it uses the hardcoded
Anonymous user so there will be no prompting, etc.  So, no need to API
create a &Session.  However, if you are calling the appDef from the
repository, then MGOS does it own authentication in which case you would
need to pass the session as credentials.
 
Andy Morsell, P.E.
Spatial Integrators, Inc.
www.SpatialGIS.com
 
From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Rock Beans
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:53 AM
To: MapGuide Users Mail List
Subject: [mapguide-users] Query String Auto-Login with Fusion or Flexible
Layouts
 
Using the old standard AJAX viewer you could add
&USERNAME=Anonymous&PASSWORD= to the URL allowing no login box to pop up.
Can this be done with the new Fusion based viewer without having to API
create a &Session?


The Rock

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