MapInfo Professional: Launch
MapInfo can be set up to launch myData to the selected spatial asset.
Launch myData from MapInfo
Prerequisites
- myData installed
- MapInfo installed
- Hot-link setup for each launch
- myData assetID in spatial data.
How to Set Up Hotlinks to Launch myData
MapInfo has a feature called hotlinks 
this combined with myData's URL Protocol Handler allows MapInfo to open myData to the selected asset.
Open up the layer control of the Map:
- Select the layer that contains the myData Asset ID e.g. Roads
- Click the Hotlink Options... button
- This will open the Hotlink Configuration window
- Click the Add button to create a new Hotlink
- Select the row that has just been created
- Click the Filename Expression drop-down and choose "Expression..."
- In the custom expression box, type "mydata:action=goto&assetCategory=assetCategory&assetID="+assetID
- Ensure that the quotation marks remain
- assetID should be replaced with the column in Mapinfo that has the myData assetID
- assetCategory should be replaced with the table name in myData e.g. Buildings, SealedRoads
- Click Verify to ensure the syntax is valid
- Click OK to save the expression
- Ensure the updated expression appears in the Configuration window, as shown below:
- Under the Activate HotLink on section, ensure that the Labels & Objects radio button is selected
- Finally, click OK to take you back to the Layer control
How to Use Hotlinks to Launch myData
- Click on the hotlink selection tool in the main toolbar
- Hover over an asset on a layer that has hotlinks configured and then click on the asset. Please note that the layer must be set to selectable for the hotlinks selection to work
- A popup may appear if two assets were selected, if this occurs, please select the correct asset
- If myData is already open, the focus will shift to that of the selected asset
- If myData is not currently running, select the config file and login as normal - myData will then open the asset category and focus on the selected asset.
