Mapserv and SDE

[John Hockaday]

Thanks Ma,

I will implement this as soon as I can.  I felt sure that there was a
way but I couldn't find it in the documentation.  I guess it is hard to
document everything in such a powerful and dynamic software as
mapserv.  That's why I find the Test Suite so valuable.


Johnh

> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 03:53:03 +0000
> From: Ma <marin at here.is>
> Hi John,
> 
> John Hockaday wrote:
> 
> >
> > I was also wondering if there was an ERRORTEMPLATE, or something like
> > that, in the map file that allows me to produce a more friendly HTML
> > message if a user doesn't select a querable point during a query.
> > Mapserv currently returns an
> >
> >         "msQueryUsingPoint(): Search returned no results.  No matching
> >         record(s) found."
> >
> > error.  I would like it to report something like, "Please go back to
> > the map interface and click on a point ... etc.".  It already has
> > HEADER and FOOTER in the LAYER object as well as a TEMPLATE in the
> > QUERY object so an ERRORTEMPLATE would compliment the functionality.
> >
> 
> WEB
> # for no results:
> EMPTY "/mygis/query-no-results.html"
> # for general errors:
> ERROR "/mygis/error.html"
>  ....
> END
> 
> 
> for the template:
> <a href="javascript:history.go(-1)">Click here to go back</a>
> 
> ---
> Ma
>