Exercise 1: Publish to MapGuide

AutoCAD Map 3D 2009

 
Exercise 1: Publish to MapGuide
 
 
 

When you publish to Autodesk MapGuide, you create a web page containing a picture of your map. You will need rights to a MapGuide 2009 Server, which supports the new templates used in this exerciese. You must have credentials and write rights in order to do this exercise.

NoteThis exercise uses the map you created and modified in the previous exercises.

To publish to MapGuide

  1. Save the map.
  2. Click File menu More Plotting Options Publish to Autodesk MapGuide.
  3. In the Publish To MapGuide dialog box, specify the URL for the target website.

    If the site requires a password, a Connect to Site dialog box is displayed. Enter your user name and password.

  4. Select a folder for the published files.

    To create a new folder, right-click the parent folder and click New Folder.

  5. Check both options (for overwriting existing resources and previewing the results).
  6. Click Publish.

    Once the publish operation is complete, the results appear in a browser window.

  7. To view the published map again later, click File menu More Plotting Options Publish to Autodesk MapGuide and connect to the website. Then right-click the map to view and click Open In Web Browser.

NoteYou can use tooltips to display information when the viewer holds the cursor over a particular area. Within Autodesk MapGuide Studio, you can create tooltips that display attribute values on the MapGuide web page when the viewer hovers over a parcel. For more information, see the Autodesk MapGuide Help.

Where you are now

You published your map to Autodesk MapGuide, complete with joined data, calculated properties, styling, and attribute data. You viewed the resulting web page from within AutoCAD Map 3D.