The following table describes the commands that may appear in the popup menu when you right-click in the map window. You may not always see all of these commands, or you may notice some custom commands not in this list; which popup menu commands appear depends on how the map author created the map.
Underlined commands (links) in the table are linked to a help topic that provides more information about using that command. Click the link to view the associated topic.
Command | Description |
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Pan | Moves the map around to display areas that are outside of the current view. |
Reload | Reloads the current map at the current zoom scale. |
Print > Page Setup | Displays the Page Setup dialog box, where you can specify settings for printing the map. |
Print > Print | Prints the map. |
Copy > Copy | Copies the current map view to the Clipboard (not available in the Java Edition). |
Copy > Copy As URL | Copies the current map location to the Clipboard as a URL. |
Zoom > Zoom | Zooms in by a magnification factor of two on the point that you click, or zoom in to the rectangular area you draw with the mouse. |
Zoom > Zoom Goto | Displays the Zoom Goto dialog box, where you specify the location or US street address you want to zoom to. The author of the map specifies the types of locations, so the types of locations in this dialog box vary. |
Zoom > Zoom Width | Displays the Zoom Width dialog box, where you specify the width, in current units, of the area that you want to display in the map window. |
Zoom > Zoom Scale | Displays the Zoom Scale dialog box, where you specify the scale at which you want to view the map. |
Zoom > Zoom Selected | Zooms to display all of the selected features. |
Zoom > Zoom Previous | Zooms to the previous zoom magnification and location. |
Zoom > Zoom Out | Zooms out by a magnification factor of two from the point you click to display a larger area of the map. |
Zoom > Unzoom | Zooms out to display the entire map. |
Bookmarks > Add Bookmark | Displays the Add Bookmark dialog box, where you can specify a bookmark name for the current map view and save it as a bookmark. |
Bookmarks > Delete Bookmarks | Displays the Delete Bookmarks dialog box, where you can choose a bookmark to delete. |
Bookmarks > (bookmark name) | Adjusts the map view to display the area that was saved under this bookmark name. |
Select > Select | Turns on Selection mode so that you can select one or more features in a map. |
Select > Select Map Features | Displays the Select Map Features dialog box, where you select from a list of the map features. |
Select > Select Radius | Selects the map features that fall within a circle with the radius you specify from a specific point. |
Select > Select Polygon | Selects the map features that fall within a polygon you draw. |
Select > Select Within | Selects the map features that fall within the selected map features. |
Select > Select Clear | Clears the currently selected map features. You can also press ESC to clear the selection. Note that pressing ESC does not work if you are using the Java Edition of the Viewer on an Apple Macintosh computer. |
View > View Reports | Generates a report for the selected map features. |
View > View Buffer | Creates buffers around the selected map features. |
View > View Distance | Displays the distance between two points, as well as the cumulative distance of all measurements made. |
Help > Preferences | Displays the Preferences dialog box, where you can specify the map units, selection mode, and status bar settings. |
Help > Help Contents | Displays the Autodesk MapGuide Help or the Help created by the author of the map. If you do not have the Help installed on your computer, it will be opened from the Autodesk MapGuide Web site. |
Help > About | Displays information about your version of Autodesk MapGuide Viewer. |
Stop | Stops or interrupts the map display from updating and dynamic map layers from downloading. This command is available in the Map Window popup menu if you right-click in the map while the map is loading. |
Continue | Continues updating the map display and downloading dynamic map layers. This command is available in the Map Window popup menu if you right-click in the map while the map is loading. |
The following table describes the commands that appear in the popup menu when you right-click a layer or a layer group in the legend:
Command | Description |
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Rebuild | Rebuilds the selected layer or all the layers in a layer group. |
Expand (layer) | Displays all of the styles for that layer. |
Expand (layer group) | Displays the list of layers in the layer group. |
Collapse (layer) | If a map layer listed in the legend shows all of the layer styles, collapses the list to show only the layer names. |
Collapse (layer group) | Collapses the list of layers in the layer group, displaying only the layer group name. |
Expand Theme | Displays the names of the theme categories for the layer. This command is available only when a single layer is selected. |
Collapse Theme | Hides the list of theme categories for the layer. This command is available only when a single layer is selected. |
Turn On All Layers | Available only for layer groups, turns on all the layers in a layer group. |
Turn Off All Layers | Available only for layer groups, turns off all the layers in a layer group. |