<br>Hi all,<br><br>Hope it's appropriate to post this question here. I was just wondering about the status of the issue described here:<br><br><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/HidingLayersInOGCWebServices" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/wiki/HidingLayersInOGCWebServices</a><br>
<br>Recently I revisited this issue and dusted off an old WMS manual that seemed to have the elements of the solution I desired. Perhaps I am being overly optimistic, but I thought I should ask if this approach has already been considered, or how it could be used via MapServer.<br>
<br>Specifically, I am interested in being able to serve a group of layers (say a base map composed of many layers with nice cartography) and have that group only visible in my GetCapabilities as a single entry. I don not want my users to be able to look inside my base map group and request the individual component layers (like roads, streams, etc). <br>
<br>From this old WMS manual I have, it seems this should be possible using different combinations of the Layer Name and Title elements in GetCapabilities. here is the relavent quote:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">
"A Map Server which advertises a Layer containing a Name element MUST be able to accept that Name as the value of LAYERS argument in a GetMap request and return the corresponding map. A viewer Client MUST NOT attempt to request a Layer that has a Title but no Name."<br>
</div><br>So from this it looks like the behavior I want would be possible if I could somehow get MapServer to allow me to advertise a Name and Title for my basemap group, but only a Title (and no Name) element for the Layers inside that group.<br>
<br>Hope I am making sense here. I can tell a lot of people have looked at this, so I'm not sure this is a helpful additional perspective, but I just had to ask!<br><br>Tanya<br><br><br>