[mapserver-users] Hiding the layers contained in a group from the WMS GetCapabilities

[Stephan Meißl]

Hm, good question. In INSPIRE we didn't try to turn off/on single
layers/groups so far. Besides that we're investigating the usage of
"wms_layer_group" for arbitrary grouping of layers to any depth in favor
of the GROUP directive which allows grouping only for one level.

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Stephan


On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 08:42 -0400, Daniel Morissette wrote: 
> I don't think MapServer 6.0 supports what you are trying to do, but I 
> think this is something that was going to be addressed by the INSPIRE 
> work (RFC 75, ticket #3608). Not sure if that's in place in trunk 
> already or not.
> 
> Stephan Meissl would be best to answer that one if he's reading this... 
> or otherwise you could ask on the mapserver-inspire list.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On 11-10-20 05:52 AM, Alexandre Saunier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like that only the groups appear in my WMS GetCapabilities
> > response, not the layers they contain, with Mapserver 6.0.0.
> >
> > I have tried to add the following metadata:
> > "wms_enable_request" "!GetCapabilities"
> > in the layer definition. For instance:
> >
> > LAYER
> >    NAME "layer1"
> >    GROUP "foobar"
> >    TYPE polygon
> >    METADATA
> >      "wms_title" "layer1"
> >      "wms_group_title" "foobar"
> >      "wms_enable_request" "!GetCapabilities"
> >    END
> > END
> >
> > It works correctly (*) but when all the layers are removed from the
> > GetCapabilities, the parent group disappears as well.
> > Is there a way to keep the group visible in the GetCapabilities even
> > when all its layers are hidden?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alexandre
> >
> > (*) Actually I have noticed weird behaviours when only some of the
> > group layers are marked "hidden". There's already a ticket about that
> > issue:
> > http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3931
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