MapInfo Users Group of New Zealand

1. Selection Styles

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC Either per layer styles or an override style for polygon selections instead of a fill pattern.  Prefer per layer styles as this gives greatest flexibility, can be implemented by allowing for specific named style overrides in the...

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 1186 hits | Read more

2. AJAX

PUBLIC Greater use of AJAX type scripting for better user experience.  Checkout Google Maps, Intramaps, etc

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 943 hits

3. Nested Work Contexts/Workspaces

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC Ability to nest one work context/workspace within another work context/workspace in a similar fashion to MapInfo Encounter. When creating Work Contexts in Exponare there is a lot of duplication and effort involved during...

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 919 hits | Read more

4. Theme Updates

WORKSPACE MANAGER Rebuild themes based on new values or give the administrator an option in workspace manager to update a theme instead of building a new theme from scratch

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 855 hits

5. XML Results

PUBLIC Use an xml/xsl type model like Encounter for displaying data etc.  This gives administrators much greater flexibility to customize Exponare without altering the base products functionality. 

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 846 hits

6. Zoom to Point Selection

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC Provide administrators the ability to define a MBR of sorts with point files.  This allows for zooming to a point selection

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 803 hits

7. GBM Mobile not able to update BizeAsset Additions & Disposals

Current situation is that GBM Mobile is able to merge BizeAsset main tables ie ww_line, ww_point, etc but unable to update the additions or disposal tables at time of merging ie ww_line_Additions etc. The wish is for any new line or point data made...

Friday, 09 February 2007 | 784 hits | Read more

8. Web Browser Support

PUBLIC Multiple Browser support for web browsers other than IE e.g. Firefox, Mozilla, Opera etc � Firefox 2 is now supported in version 3.  Some issues with Queries in Safari and Google Chrome.

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 735 hits

9. Legend Hyperlinks

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC Provide the administrator an option to show highlighted or popup type text for hyperlinks in the legend

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 695 hits

10. Find longitude latitude

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC Allow the administrator to define in the admin panel a coordinate search option for projections by work context and whether this function is available to that work context. (IE find longitude latitude).

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 621 hits

11. Work Context Backup

CONFIGURATION MANAGER The ability to backup or archive a workcontext for template purposes or testing would be very beneficial

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 570 hits

12. Launch Workspace Manager from Admin

CONFIGURATION MANAGER Provide either a right click menu or menu item under the admin panel to launch the selected workspace in workspace manager.  This is all within the enquiry admin panel  Exponare configuration manager can now be invoked with a...

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 546 hits | Read more

13. Active Selection Zoom Level

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC Have another setting in exponare for visibility of selected (active) objects by zoom level

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 528 hits

14. Watermarks Visibility Toggle

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC Allow the end user the ability to toggle the visibility for specific watermarks.  This should be done via the admin control (could be used for legends etc)

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 511 hits

15. Label Arrows

WORKSPACE MANAGER Allow the workspace manager to invoke an arrow from the label object to the map object if the label falls outside of the MBR

Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | 505 hits

16. Scale bar zoom level visibilitiy

CONFIGURATION MANAGER Suggest an option in the admin section for each work context allow for an additional setting for scale bars based on zoom level. 

Thursday, 15 March 2007 | 481 hits

17. Selected Object Style-Label Override

CONFIGURATION MANAGER Might suggest a setting for selected object style and label override be available to the administrator.

Thursday, 08 May 2008 | 252 hits | Read more

18. Alternate HTML Text for Drop Down Work Contexts

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC It would be useful to have the ability to add Alt Text in the dropdown list of workcontexts in exponare Public.

Sunday, 03 August 2008 | 249 hits | Read more

19. Zoom to Selection and Expand Multiple Selections List

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC Automatically Zoom to selection when selecting values from a drop down list.

Saturday, 01 November 2008 | 248 hits | Read more

20. User alterable zoom layering

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC Problem : As most work contexts have a large number of properties and parcels, it is necessary to employ zoom layering to maintain adequate speeds in the system, but occasionally users will need to see layers that are outside the...

Friday, 25 July 2008 | 236 hits | Read more

21. Long Layer Names

CONFIGURATION MANAGER Problem : When Exponare creates a databind it attaches “_Selection” to the end of the layer name. Because of the 32 character limit for layer names in Exponare / MapXtreme if a layer name is greater than 22 characters in...

Friday, 25 July 2008 | 232 hits | Read more

22. Automatically Zoom to active selection from drop down list

PUBLIC  When multiple selections are found via a query the end user may select one of the many results but must then press zoom to selection to reparent the map.

Tuesday, 11 November 2008 | 229 hits | Read more

23. Use Databind data to create thematic / labels

WORKSPACE MANAGER Exponare needs the ability to define labelling using external DB fields – this currently isn’t possible in Workspace Manager.

Friday, 25 July 2008 | 224 hits | Read more

24. Busy cursor when waiting for the server to return a map

ENQUIRY Problem: The activity bar in the bottom left is not adequately visible to regular users who don't know that something is happening.  They then try to do about 5 clicks and then have to wait about 20-30 secs for the server to process...

Friday, 25 July 2008 | 223 hits | Read more

25. Copying Favourites – as a Group

ENQUIRY Favourites are currently saved as individual .fav files in the machine/user directory, we need the ability to export an entire set of favourites, the current functionality only allows the active screen to be exported. Conducting this...

Friday, 25 July 2008 | 213 hits | Read more

26. Infotips in map window

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC Infotip displays in map window when mouse hovers over map object. Administrator can control infotip for each layer individually. Infotip can set be different to autolabel setting.

Friday, 25 July 2008 | 208 hits | Read more

27. SQL Query Builder

CONFIGURATION MANAGER Create a sql builder tool that selects tables, fields & links from dropdown select. A extra tab field on config manager would be fine. SQL Verify added in 3.5

Friday, 25 July 2008 | 202 hits | Read more

28. Left and Bottom Panel Default Size

Problem: Version 2.5 seems to have a set default size for the left and bottom panels. The user is now restricted to a set minimum panel size which is too large for the bottom panel. The user has to close the bottom panel altogether or put up with...

Friday, 25 July 2008 | 201 hits | Read more

29. File > Print Option

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC Include the option to add print into the file menu

Friday, 25 July 2008 | 192 hits | Read more

30. Ability to create databinds, but not display them in the databind panel when a map object is selecte

ENQUIRY & PUBLIC The reason for this is so that a databind that not necessary needs to be displayed in Exponare can be inserted on a print template.

Friday, 25 July 2008 | 181 hits | Read more