DBASE file error. Item 'nombredep' not found.

[Alejandro Mejia Evertsz]

Thanks Lowell,
I opened the .dbf file on Map Maker's database editor utility, and noticed
the column name is all UPPERCASE, but I tried lowecase and lowercase with
same results. 
NOMBREDEP and nombredep

If case is important to mapserver, I'll save it now with uppercase.
I also tried to remove the quotes "" but same thing.

Thanks again for your help.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Lowell.Filak
Sent: Lunes, 21 de Noviembre de 2005 09:03 a.m.
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] DBASE file error. Item 'nombredep' not
found.

Alejandro Mejia Evertsz writes: 

> Hi list!
>  
> I'm new to this mapserver stuff, and I'm having a trouble for creating 
> a map.
> I have a map called guate.map with only one layer (to start getting 
> used to mapserver).
> The layer uses deptoswgs84.shp <http://168.234.218.12/deptoswgs84.shp>  
> , deptoswgs84.shx <http://168.234.218.12/deptoswgs84.shx>  and 
> deptoswgs84.dbf <http://168.234.218.12/deptoswgs84.dbf>
> Database (.dbf) has a column called "nombredep" and I created a class 
> item under the layer with this name, but the server returns:
>  
> DBASE file error. Item 'nombredep' not found.
>  
> I don't know what else to do, cause I even changed the name of the 
> column to change the class item then, but have the same problem.
> Is the database file corrupted or not compatible with mapserver?
> Am I doing something wrong?
> Am I missing any parameters in the map file?
>  
> You can see the error here:
> http://168.234.218.12/mapservdemo/
> (I'm using the Itasca demo templates cause I'm not an expert with this 
> mapserver thing, and I don't wanna create my own html's and have more 
> mistakes than now)

Alejandro, 

Double check capitalization of the item name.
HTH 

Lowell