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Creating searches in basic web layouts - MapGuide Tutorial
From the course: Learning MapGuide Open Source
Creating searches in basic web layouts
- [Instructor] Searches are the quickest way to customize basic web layouts. You can search the contents of any layer and zoom to that feature using them. Let's create a search now. So inside the basic web layout, let's scroll all the way to the bottom and for custom commands, we're going to click Add, Search. So we're going to change the name of this to SearchParcel and the title will be Search for Address. And what I usually do is take the title and copy it across the tool tip and the description, and I don't have a custom icon for this, I'm going to use the default search icon. So we'll leave that alone. Under advanced, where's the search going to take place? It's going to be in the Task Pane. That's fine with me, I want the search locked inside of my webpage. What layer am I going to search for? So as you know, the web layout points to a map in this case than a Nymo map. That means any layer in that map is…
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