[OpenLayers-Users] Example of creating a POI with attributes

[Roald de Wit]

Hi Mike,

If you could make this control availabe somehow, that would be great! It 
might be a nice candidate for an addin [1].

Cheers, Roald

[1] http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Addins

Mike Adair wrote:
> I did a EditFeatureAttributes control a few months ago that first did a 
> WFS DescribeFeatureType query to determine the attributes for a feature 
> type and then created a form with inputs for each attribute.  It 
> registered with featureAdded and featureSelected events on the WFS layer 
> to open and populate the form.  Clicking on a 'save' button then 
> triggered a Save strategy to do a WFS transaction to the DB.  I seem to 
> recall that it needed some extra information about attribute types, 
> primary keys, etc. but it was mostly driven from the DescribeFeatureType 
> response.
>
> I don't think there is an example online anywhere yet but I could 
> probably put the code somewhere if you were interested.
>
> Mike Adair
>
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anyone have a public page/example that demonstrates creating a 
>> point feature and adding text attributes to it? This seems like it would 
>> be a common use case.
>>
>> Creating the vector feature is straight forward. It would be nice if 
>> after you create the point, that you could click it and open a balloon 
>> with fields that you could fill in and a save|cancel button that would 
>> save it back to the server.
>>
>> Maybe this is two operations:
>>
>> 1) create or drag the marker for editing the location
>> 2) click to edit attributes or to delete marker
>>
>> Mostly unsure on the attributes and the best way to glue all this together.
>>
>> Suggestions and examples would be helpful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>    -Steve
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