Hi,

We believe your requirement is to invoke a submap from within a map view.

Scenario:

Create a map for USA (country)
User creates a map for Dallas  (city)
User places an icon for Dallas on map USA
 
Expected Result:

The user must be able to open the USA map and invoke the Dallas map from here by double clicking on the map.

Generally, maps can be created using the map filter implementation. But if you want to create maps during run time, you need to follow different implementation.

Steps to be followed to create maps from the UI at runtime.

1.From the Custom Views menu select the Add New Map menu item.
2.In the properties form enter the details like name,label etc and in the ParentNode Drop down select the parent map under which you  wish to add your map.
3.Click on Add map and the new map will appear under the selected parent node.

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If you already have a sub-map and need a menu item or short-cut to open the child map from the parent map.In other words, you have child MapSymbol in the parent map and on clicking the child map symbol ,you want the child map to open.

You can achieve this with a menu action called 'openpanel'.You only need to have a menu item to invoke this menu action.For more details on 'open panel' menu action,please refer to the following developer guide link:

http://www.webnms.com/webnms/help/developer_guide/java_client_framework/menu_framework/menu_actions/java_openpanel_menuaction.html

You can also refer to our default map ipnet.netmap which has a similar kind of implementation.The menu file for the same is <NmsHome>/mapdata/menus/ipnet.xml.

You may use the following steps to add a new menu item and associate an 'open panel' menu action with the same:

Add the following menu item to the menu file (the xml file corresponding  to the menu where you need this menu item)

 <MENU-ITEM
        name="Open Submap"       
        action_type="openpanel"
        action_value="MapApplet?OPEN_MAP=${objName}">
</MENU-ITEM>

Here "Open Submap" is the name of the menu item.

The open panel action will be triggered on clicking the menu "Open Submap". However, if you want to trigger this menu action on double clicking the map symbol, you can give the entry as mentioned below:

<DOUBLECLICK action_type="openpanel" action_value="MapApplet?OPEN_MAP=${objName}"/>

For more details on double click , please refer to the following developer guide link:

http://www.webnms.com/webnms/help/developer_guide/java_client_framework/menu_framework/java_double_click.html#Map specific menu

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Deborah CD