[mapguide-users] Search Multiple Layers

[James Card]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:19:14 -0700, Mark Hedges  
<hedgesm at cityofnorthlasvegas.com> wrote:

> Every feature in my data contains a uinique "FID".  Lets say that I have  
> 10 different layers of which all of them contain an "FID".  I have no  
> problem creating a search to search for the "FID" but I can only search  
> 1 layer at a time.  I would like to search for an "FID" across all 10  
> layers.  Is this possible?  I am trying to do this in Mapguide Studio.   
> Any help would be appreciated.  I looked all through the posts and can't  
> seem to find what I am looking for.

You will have to write some custom code for this in PHP/Java/.Net. Some  
folks run this custom search code in the task pane of the map viewer,  
others build a custom search front-end that doesn't load the map until the  
user selects the feature(s) they want from the search results.

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James Card
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