[mapguide-users] Can you group features?

[Jackie Ng]

You have to use a MultiXXX geometry type. (MultiPoint, MultiLineString, etc)

To make these types in AutoCAD Map (2009 onwards AFAIK), right click your
FDO layer in your Display Manager, and choose "New Feature from Geometry",
then you can select all your disconnected (AutoCAD) lines, and they should
be created as a single logical Multi feature (if the FDO layer's geometry
storage permits it).

Then if you select any one of the lines, the whole group should be selected,
MapGuide should exhibit the same behaviour.

Hope that helps.

- Jackie


JamesDudden wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> This question is related to MapGuide as I am using MGOS but the answer may
> be unrelated so any help or advice would be appreciated.
> 
> What I want to do in basic terms is group separate features on my map so
> they can be selected as one entity i.e. 2 lines that are unconnected but
> when clicked on both will be highlighted.
> 
> I have tried this in AutoCAD LT and a colleague tried this is in AutoCAD
> Map 3D (though I am not really familiar with either product so may have
> missed something) and the result has been inconsistent - when I tried
> grouping 2 lines it worked some of the time but not always and when I
> tried grouping more than 2 lines it didn't work, basically the lines
> disappeared. I spoke to an Autocad/MapGuide Reseller and they said it
> shouldn't work if it did it is probably a bug.
> 
> Has anybody been able to group features so they can be selected as one
> entity?
> 
> Regards
> JD
> 
> 

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