Maestro: consider adding way to copy/paste resource between windows (using clipboard?)

[jbirch]

It would be incredible useful if chunks of the repository (folders and sub-resources, resources, etc) could be copied and pasted using the Windows clipboard when working between two Maestro windows connected to different servers. I'm not sure if this is technically feasible, but there appears to be some guidance on the subject?

​http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/copycustomclasstoclipbrd.aspx

If this is possible, adding options to "Copy to clipboard" / "Paste from clipboard" might be best approach?

[ksgeograf]

This would be like a mini-package create/restore procedure?

It could be done (with windows only support), but it won't work if the target host is missing alias, datafiles, databases, etc.

It would mostly target users with two more or less identical MapGuide servers.

[jbirch]

My work flow right now is either to create packages or, when I just have specific resources within a folder I need to transfer, to open both resources as XML and copy/paste between them. Both of these are multi-step operations, so a mini package-transfer function would be quite useful when moving resources between two identical servers (test/prod).

For interest, my current process is to dump both repositories out as packages, and compare the text contents of the unzipped packages in Beyond Compare, then go in to Maestro and update the modified resources from test to prod where the differences are due to changes rather than intentional differences between test/prod.

[jng]

Multi-site support fixes this