itemnquery and qlayer not found, NAME vs GROUP {Scanned} {Scanned}

[Siki Zoltan]

Hi,

I had similar problem with query recently.
But you should realize that shpae files in the group may have
different attribute table (eg. dbf). It is not neccessary to have the
save table structure for all layers in the group, that is way I think
query can't work for groups.
One trick I used, to add template to all layers in the group.
If the table structure is the same for all layers in the group than
you can use the same template. mode=query will use the top most layer at
the given position.

Bye
Zoltan

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Wim Blanken wrote:

> Hello Ken,
>
> Just had the same problem with an app we are developing....
> It seems you are right about the itemnquery problem, the documentation
> is clearly wrong about this.
> I had to merge my query layers (point, line and polygon)  into one polygon
> layer to get this working......
> Would be nice if this worked with groups.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Wim Blanken
> The Netherlands.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geographic Resource Solutions" <grs at GRSGIS.COM>
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 5:57 PM
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] itemnquery and qlayer not found, NAME vs
> GROUP
>
>
> > Hi List,
> >
> > Last night I came finally got past a problem I had with itemnquery where I
> > kept getting the qlayer not found message even though it was in my
> > mapserver statement.  My qlayer specified a layer GROUP name rather a
> > layer
> > NAME value.  By chance I tried the actual layer NAME value and the locate
> > feature worked.
> >
> > Can someone confirm that this call/function needs a qlayer value based on
> > a
> > NAME value rather than a GROUP value.
> >
> > Secondly, now that the function is returning the selected feature, none of
> > the other features specified as layers to be drawn are being displayed.
> > Is
> > this for the same reason ?  Does all layer input for commands like this
> > have to be by name rather than group ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ken
> > Geographic Resource Solutions
> > 1125 16th Street, Suite 213
> > Arcata, CA 95521
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> >
> >
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> >
> >
>