I am currently working on a mappView visualization in AS6.7.
When i change the id of a page, it automatically renames the filename of the page to match the id of the page. And it also renames the folder where that file is in.
Similar behaviour is with styles and many other things and it is extremely annoying, especially when working with projects that are under version control.
Is there a way to disable this automatic renaming? AS4.12 did not do this, so it must be quite a new development. There is also no requirement that the filename and id of a page are matching, the project can be compiled without warning if they differ.
the described behavior is related to the “refactoring” feature, introduced in mapp View 6.0.
In mapp View 5 the “id” of a content was completely independent of the filename.
This resulted in a lot of confusion for many customers, as it was not obvious in which file which “id” is stored. It was a customer wish to align package name (especially for pages), filename and the id of the content …
This change was done in mapp View 6.0 - if you now search for a content with id “main”, you know the filename will be “main.content”. Additionally the file can much easier be found, as the filename is directly shown in the logical view of Automation Studio.
This functionality cannot be disabled.
The autoUpdate flag only controls if changes to the assets (e.g. a new content) are automatically added to the .vis file. Usually you want to have this set to “true” - as otherwise you need to do this manually.
Thank you for the answers and explanations! We will probably do the refactoring then, because at the current state, the project is no longer manageable.