[mapguide-users] Re: DwfLoadProcedure

[Jackie Ng]

One thing to note about Load Procedures is that they store load settings for
*client applications*. As a result, whether we can support load procedures
of data type X is determined by whether we can actually read and process
files of type X on the client-side in a portable fashion.

This is why although the latest Maestro 2.1 preview supports SDF and SHP
load procedures, there are some settings (such as generalization and file
conversion) that we can't support portably (Maestro also runs on Linux/Mac
via Mono)

So to answer your question, support for DWF load procedures is not in the
current release of Maestro, but support will probably be there (in the
future) in some form due to the following reasons:

1) It is an open, documented format.
2) It is a zip file, and thus we can read/process DWF files with standard
.net zip libraries.

See my notes on the ExecuteLoadProcedure API
(http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/maestro/MaestroAPI/2.1ApiChanges).

That will give you an idea of what Maestro can and won't support in the near
future.

- Jackie


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