= !MapGuide RFC 81 - Add a new widget Feature Inspector =

This page contains an change request (RFC) for the !MapGuide Open Source project.
More !MapGuide RFCs can be found on the [wiki:MapGuideRfcs RFCs] page.


== Status ==

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||Submission Date||(Date/Time submitted)||
||Last Modified||Buddy Hu [[Timestamp]]||
||Author||Buddy Hu||
||RFC Status||draft||
||Implementation Status||under development||
||Proposed Milestone||2.2||
||Assigned PSC guide(s)||Tom Fukushima||
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== Overview ==
Some customers wish we could make it easier for users to select one or more features that– within a given scale range – might be overlapping or too close to each other.
We will introduce a new widget "Feature Inspector panel" for both Fusion viewer and Ajax viewer. With this new panel, the user can distinguish the feature(s) which he/she wants. 

== Motivation ==
The current way to select features in MapGuide applications makes the process of distinguishing one specific feature out of a selection group difficult:

1. No means to visualize the attributes of multiple features at once;

2. No means to “browse through” a selection set; 

There are some use cases:

1.If several features are selected across different layers, the selection panel should allow users to easily visualize their attributes and which layers these selected features belong by;

2.At a given zoom level in a map, some features might be too close to each other for users to select them individually; users should be able to interact with the elements in the selection panel to help them narrow down a selection group to which feature he/she wants without changing the scale range;

3.The user selects multiple objects with the “Select Polygon”, and these objects will be displayed in the Selection Panel.

== Proposed Solution ==

This is the UI of this new widget:

[[Image(Feature_Inspector_Panel.2.JPG)]]


== Implications ==

N/A

== Test Plan ==

N/A

== Funding/Resources ==

Supplied by Autodesk