Re: [mapguide-users] .mgp with Feature Source Oracle?

2017-05-09 Thread Jérôme Touré
Hi, It's hard to understand what you're trying to do as what you say does not really make sense. Working with Oracle DB is pretty straight forward. 1 - Create a feature source and select the Oracle Provider 2 - Enter the connection parameters 3 - Save That's done. When you want to use data

Re: [mapguide-users] .mgp with Feature Source Oracle?

2017-05-08 Thread open_saucer
I don't intend to move data from one server to another. I shouldn't have to, if there is an Oracle DB that have spatial table right? I can just let any MapGuide Server access the Oracle DB, read the spatial table and serve/publish that spatial table as an layers/maps/etcs. So really there

Re: [mapguide-users] .mgp with Feature Source Oracle?

2017-05-08 Thread Jackie Ng
Say you have a DEV MapGuide Server and a PROD MapGuide Server, you can author up all your layers/maps/etc on the DEV instance, create a mgp package that you can the load into the PROD instance and have all your data/layers/maps/etc in there without having to repeat all this work. So an .mgp

[mapguide-users] .mgp with Feature Source Oracle?

2017-05-08 Thread open_saucer
Is it a requirement to create a .mgp pakage from feature source oracle? My plan workflow is to connect to Oracle--> choose a spatial table and create a vector layer definition from the Oracle database --> once I have the layer then I should able to use that layer to create a web map application