[mapguide-users] Zooming / Moving to a point on the map using the Server Side API

[foolfish]

the viewer API ZoomToView() can be used to  achieve your needs.



Carl Jokl wrote:
> 
> I wanted to ask about the process which you have to go through in order to
> use the MapGuide server side API to move the map position and zoom.
> 
> The simple functionality seems to exist on the client side via the
> JavaScript libraries to move the map to a given x, y, position via just a
> just a function call. Inspite of my digging around though I can't find any
> such functionality for the Server side API though I might not be looking
> in the right place.
> 
> It has been suggested that it might require loading, modifying and saving
> XML definitions to achieve this (though this seems like a complicated way
> of doing things). Does anyone have an example of moving / zooming the map
> from the Server API?
> 
> I would not have thought it would be rocket science. For larger, more
> intricate and complex mapping systems such as the one we are working on it
> would be expected the bulk of the business logic would exist on the server
> in the form of libraries there and so doing as much as possible on the
> server is desirable. A the end of the day the JavaScript function
> "ZoomToView" I would expect must call something on the server.
> 

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