[Mapserver-users] trouble with querymap

[David Rafkind]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:00:56PM +0100, Frank Koormann wrote:
> David,
> 
> * David Rafkind <daver at umiacs.umd.edu> [021218 18:02]:
> > hello all! a quasi-newbie question about mapserver 3.6.3:
> > 
> > I am trying to highlight point-selected features in a layer. I assume this
> > happens by setting the "mode" cgi variable to "querymap". This is the URL 
> > I am trying to use:
> > 
> > 
> 
> You can query only layers for which a template is defined.
> By adding a "map_layer_0_template=%22%22" to your URL I get the result
> map. 
> 
> In general this should go into your map file.
> 
> Regards,
>                 
>         Frank

Thanks a lot, that worked perfectly. However, i would say that requiring a
template (which is ignored) just to create the querymap is somewhat of a
mis-feature.