Resource Validation

Resource integrity is a very important issue when authoring and publishing data in MapGuide. Doing something as innocuous as deleting a resource may inadvertently break any number of resources that may be depending on it.

There are other common scenarios that can cause resource breakage:

• You have edited or removed a column in a database table from a Feature Source that is referenced by one or more layers. Rendering of this layer may either break or be incorrect.
• You have renamed a Layer Definition that one or more Map Definitions reference.
• You have deleted a custom command in a Web Layout that is referenced in a toolbar or menu

Most of these scenarios result in usually the same outcome: You don't see things on the map that you would normally expect to be there.

Fortunately, MapGuide Maestro provides a powerful Resource Validation facility that you can use to validate a given resource against such common scenarios. To validate a resource, right click it in the Site Explorer and select the Validate context menu item.

Upon completion of validation, any warnings or errors are displayed in a dialog for you to review

Validation Results Dialog

Any information or warnings encountered during validation do not affect display of the map. These are generally about performance, source data and non-sensical (but not error-causing) configuration values.

Note

Resource Validation is automatically done by resource editors before saving a resource. If you are confident in your authoring capabilities, this may be unnecessary. An option is available for you to turn this off.