<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">If I have a FILTER and FILTERITEM set in my map file for a layer....when I call a whichshapes on that layer I get zero shapes. Comparatively, if I run a map draw, the FILTER works correctly and draws the shapes that meet the criteria. Do I need to use mapscript to set the filter or something? Thanks
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Steve Lime <Steve.Lime@dnr.state.mn.us><BR>To: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org; jjschlafley@yahoo.com<BR>Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2008 9:29:06 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapscript whichshapes attribute query<BR><BR>Which shapes applies the layer FILTER definition if it exists. That FILTER must be set prior to calling whichshapes.<BR><BR>Steve<BR><BR>>>> "J.J. Schlafley" <<A href="mailto:jjschlafley@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:jjschlafley@yahoo.com">jjschlafley@yahoo.com</A>> 07/02/08 12:22 PM >>><BR>The mapscript documentation for the method (LayerObj) whichshapes claims you can quote: "Performs a spatial, and optionally an attribute based feature search." How and where is the attribute based search query included in this method? <BR>JJ<BR><BR><BR> <BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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