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Dynamic Authoring Toolkit

You use the Dynamic Authoring Toolkit to open and save MWFs in an XML-
based format called Map Window XML (MWX). With MWX format, you can
modify map layers, layer groups, zoom gotos, reports, and so on, using any
third-party text editor or an application you develop.
You can extend the ability to modify maps to clients by monitoring Viewer
API methods or by enabling users to submit requests using a Web interface.
Based on Viewer activity or user response, you can dynamically modify the
following:
Zooming, to account for the user's map center and zoom extents


Creating themes to display criteria users request


Finding and modifying internal map settings at user requests


For example, users can submit the changes they want to apply to an MWF
using a ColdFusion or Active Server Page. You can create an application that
invokes the Dynamic Authoring Toolkit conversion component to convert
the MWF to MWX and apply the user's changes. Using the Dynamic
Authoring Toolkit conversion component, you can then convert the MWX
back to MWF and send the modified map to the user's Viewer.

Symbol Manager

Symbol Manager enables you to create and modify symbol (SMB) files so that
the symbols in the SMB files are based on criteria you define. You can also
modify the properties of symbols within the SMB files.

SDF Loader

SDF Loader is a command-line utility that converts spatial map data from a
variety of formats into Spatial Data Files (SDF), one of the native formats read
by Autodesk MapGuide Server. Specifically, some of the formats that you can
convert are Autodesk Map
ESRI Arc/Info Coverage files, Intergraph DGN files, ArcView Shapefile files,
and Atlas BNA files, as well as ASCII comma-delimited CSV files. The SDF
Loader can convert the coordinates from their original coordinate system
into latitude/longitude, but it cannot perform datum shifts—all data must be
based on the same datum.
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DWG and DXF files, MapInfo MID/MIF files,
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