You need to make a Drawing Source, not a Feature Source DWF files have their own mapguide resource type separate from FDO connections - Jackie -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Alias-to-external-DWF-files-tp5992002p6010012.html Sent from the MapGuide Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.