To preserve the map definition for use at a later time, you must save the map. Before Map Designer Express saves a map, it first validates the map. For more information, see "Validating a map".
Map Designer Express provides two ways to save the current map:
A map definition stores map information in a project in System Manager. This map definition contains the following information for a map:
To save a map to a project in System Manager, you can perform any of the
actions shown in Table 13..
Table 13. Saving a map to the project
When you save the map, Map Designer Express saves the map definition and map content to the project in System Manager. It saves the map content as XML data.
A map definition can be stored as text in an operating-system file, called a map definition file. A map definition file contains the complete map definition; that is, this file uses Extended Markup Language ( XML) format to represent the following parts of a map definition:
Recommendation: Map Designer Express creates a map definition file with a .cwm extension. You should follow a naming convention for your map definition files, such as. using the file extension (.cwm) to distinguish them.
You import a map definition into Map Designer Express by opening an existing map definition file. For more information, see "Opening a map from a file".
You can save the currently open map to a map definition file in any of the
ways shown in Table 14.
Table 14. Saving a map to a map definition File
If you want to . . . | Then . . . |
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Save the map to the name of the currently open map in the format: MapName.cwm (where MapName is the name of the currently open map)
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Use any of the following:
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Save the map to a specified map definition file. Map Designer Express displays a dialog box to allow you to select the file name. |
Use either of the following: |
Example: You can save MapA in a file named fileA.cwm. This fileA file contains the map definition for MapA. When Map Designer Express opens the fileA map definition file, it displays the MapA map definition.