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Publishing a Map

Help Index
publishing maps
Help Index
linking and embedding
maps
Warning After you save a map in Autodesk MapGuide Release 6, you cannot
open the map in earlier releases of the program. Autodesk MapGuide Viewer
users using older versions can easily upgrade to Release 6 by downloading the
new Viewer from:
http://www.autodesk.com/prods/mapguide/download/index.htm
If you opened the map using its Web URL by choosing File
instead of File Open, you can save the map locally, but you cannot save it

to the Web server. You can save the map to the Web server only if you
opened the map using File
through a network, and you have the proper permissions set up. For more
information about setting permissions, refer to "Creating and Modifying
Users and Groups" on page 83.
You use the File Save, or File

For step-by-step instructions, choose Help
and look up "saving maps."
You can publish a map by copying or uploading the map to your Web server.
Note You must have either FTP access or Write access to the maps directory. If
you are not able to save the map to the Web server, you should ask your server
administrator to post it for you.
For step-by-step instructions, choose Help
and look up "publishing maps."
After you have posted the map, Web site developers can embed your map in
their HTML pages or create links to them. When a user visits a Web page that
contains your map or clicks the link to it, Autodesk MapGuide Server sends
the map data to Autodesk MapGuide Viewer, which displays the map in the
user's Web browser. The Web developer should make a note on the Web page
that Autodesk MapGuide Viewer is required for viewing the map and should
add a link to the Autodesk MapGuide Web site where the user can download
Autodesk MapGuide Viewer free of charge.
For step-by-step instructions, choose Help
and look up "linking and embedding maps."
Open, you have access to the Web server

Save As commands to save maps.

Contents, click the Index tab,

Contents, click the Index tab,

Contents, click the Index tab,

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