Improvement to query error message, FAQ
Howard Butler
hobu at IASTATE.EDU
Tue Nov 29 10:59:05 EST 2005
I fixed up the formatting and published it at:
http://ms.gis.umn.edu/docs/faq/msQueryByPointNoResults
I may move it to the error section though
http://ms.gis.umn.edu/docs/error
Howard
At 05:56 AM 11/29/2005, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>Hi Philip,
>
>the good thing about the new website is that you can add content
>yourself after you have registered, although it needs to be approved
>by the document owner.
>
>I have just added the FAQ for you at:
>
>http://ms.gis.umn.edu/docs/faq
>
>After it is approved it will become visible.
>
>Best regards,
>Bart
>
>Bart van den Eijnden
>Syncera IT Solutions
>Postbus 270
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>
>tel.nr.: 015-7512436
>email: BEN at Syncera-ITSolutions.nl
>
> >>> Philip Mark Donaghy <philip.donaghy at GMAIL.COM> 11/29/2005 11:46:38 AM >>>
>I've just started reusing MapServer. It's been a while. I just wanted
>to make a comment about this error message. "msQueryByPoint(): Search
>returned no results. No matching record(s) found". I am using the
>workshop.zip and MapServer 4.6.1.
>
>I created some new layers for a project that I have. And I couldn't
>figure out why the default query function did not work.
>
>I simply didn't know that a TEMPLATE object was required in the CLASS
>object. This is vaguely aswered by a FAQ. My contribution would be to
>add another FAQ.
>
>Q. Why do I get the message "msQueryByPoint(): Search returned no
>results. No matching record(s) found" when I query a feature known to
>exists?
>
>A. The query feature requires a TEMPLATE object in the CLASS object of
>your LAYER definition. The value points to a html fragment using
>MapServer template syntax.
>
>Example MapFile fragment:
>
> LAYER
> NAME Parcel9
> TYPE POLYGON
> STATUS OFF
> DATA Parcels/area09_parcels
> CLASS
> STYLE
> OUTLINECOLOR 128 128 128
> COLOR 153 205 255
> END
> TEMPLATE "templates/Parcels/area09_parcels.html"
> END
>
> HEADER "templates/Parcels/area09_parcels_header.html"
> FOOTER "templates/Parcels/area09_parcels_footer.html"
>
> END
>
>Example Template:
>
><tr>
> <td>[lrn]</td>
> <td>[PIN]</td>
></tr>
>
>The [lrn] is a special keyword that indicates the resulting line
>number which starts at 1. [PIN] is the name of a feature attribute.
>
>Thanks,
>Philip Donaghy
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