Hello,
I have encountered a somewhat odd issue with shapefile generation and upgrading Map Suite versions deployed to a server. We have used Map Suite to generate one of the shapefiles containing the information for one of our layers. We just upgraded to Map Suite 9, and after resolving several other issues with ThinkGeo’s assistance I found that the map was failing to load. Looking at the error in the JavaScript console it was because the map was not being generated. Further investigation into why the map was not being created properly showed that it was related to the data from this generated shapefile. There apparently was a missing “}” in the data. Thinking back to when we upgraded from version 7 to 8 we encountered the same (or at least a very similar issue). I regenerated the shapefile from the same data set, and according to our version control software the only difference was in the .dbf file. After replacing the file, I found the map was working.
Is there some difference in the shapefile generation process between the major yearly releases of Map Suite that would cause this behavior?