<div>Hey david,</div> <div> Thanks for your reply, i tried this but it didnt work. I am going to give you the complete link that we are using. Actually we are trying to query a states layer from the shape file and display just the north dakota state. So the link we are using are </div> <div> </div> <div><A href="http://localhost/scripts/mapserv.exe?MODE=map&MAP=c:/Inetpub/scripts/stateswms.map&CONTEXT=c:/Inetpub/wwwroot/mapserverdata/map_files/contextmap.xml&LAYERS=states&QLAYER=states&QITEM=state&QSTRING=('[state]'='ND'">http://localhost/scripts/mapserv.exe?MODE=map&MAP=c:/Inetpub/scripts/stateswms.map&CONTEXT=c:/Inetpub/wwwroot/mapserverdata/map_files/contextmap.xml&LAYERS=states&QLAYER=states&QITEM=state&QSTRING=('[state]'='ND'</A>)</div> <div> </div> <div>any suggestions please ...</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks for your time and effort ...</div>
<div>kris<BR><BR><B><I>"Fawcett, David" <David.Fawcett@state.mn.us></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR> <DIV><SPAN class=746400713-21072006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Kris, </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=746400713-21072006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=746400713-21072006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>This may not quite work, but it should be closer. Try something like:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=746400713-21072006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=746400713-21072006> <DIV><A href="http://pathtomapserv.exe/?MODE=itemnquerymap&LAYERS=layer1&QLAYER=layer1&QITEM=colname&QString=('[colname]'='value'"><FONT face=Arial size=2>http://pathtomapserv.exe?MODE=<SPAN
class=746400713-21072006>itemnquerymap</SPAN>&LAYERS=layer1&QLAYER=layer1&QITEM=colname&QString=(<SPAN class=746400713-21072006>'[</SPAN>colname<SPAN class=746400713-21072006>]'</SPAN>=<SPAN class=746400713-21072006>'</SPAN>value<SPAN class=746400713-21072006></SPAN>'</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>)<SPAN class=746400713-21072006> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=746400713-21072006></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=746400713-21072006>David.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=746400713-21072006></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original
Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of </B>rock well<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:49 PM<BR><B>To:</B> MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] CGI Qlayer,Qstring variables usage<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Hello all, </DIV> <DIV> I was trying to query one of the layers from a shape file in the url, i am used map as the mode and gave the layer name for Qlayer, column name for Qitem and QString. Part of the URL looks like</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://pathtomapserv.exe/?MODE=map&LAYERS=layer1&QLAYER=layer1&QITEM=">http://pathtomapserv.exe?MODE=map&LAYERS=layer1&QLAYER=layer1&QITEM=</A>colname&QString=("colname=value")</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>the map is displayed but it didnt filter the layer with the given querystring variables ....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Is there
something missing, can anyone suggest with something ...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks for your effort and time ....</DIV> <DIV>kris</DIV> <div> <HR SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!?<BR>Next-gen email? Have it all with the <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=42241/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/handraisers">all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.</A></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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