New User Questions

[Stephen Lime]

Hi: Just sent an explanation of the JOIN problem. In short comment
that line out. You'll also need to comment out a line further down
beginning with JUSTIFY. In the future I'll make sure the demo and the
release version are better synced. Queries will work without the join.

FYI 3.218 is the most recent release. Next version will be 3.3 and will
be out in a couple of weeks with some significant improvements.

Email list is archived (I think) although there is no web archive available
yet. UMN guys are working on it though. You can get old messages using
the standard majordomo commands. For a complete list send a message
with the word "help" and nothing else to majordomo at lists.gis.umn.edu.

CVS is in use at home on my development machine, but is not otherwise
accessible. This may change at some point. Bug reports are sparse, so
please let me know what you find.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Internet Applications Analyst
MIS Bureau - MN DNR

(651) 297-2937
steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us

>>> Cameron Shorter <camerons at cat.org.au> 06/23 6:03 AM >>>
Hello mapserver-users,

I've just subscribed to this list, so am not sure of the protocols yet.
I'm installing mapserver with the intent of providing bicycle maps for
people in Sydney/Australia.

So far I have a number of questions:
1. Is this email list achived?
2. Is there any version control of the software and demos (like CVS) and if
so, is it possible to get read access to it so I can determine if a bug has
been fixed before reporting it.
3. So far I have installed the demo (version 3.217) and I get the following
error message when I press the "Initialize" button on
http://www.cat.org.au/mapserv/ms_demo/demo_init.html :

An error has occurred in loadJoin(): Unknown identifier.
(data/lakejoin.dbf):(117) 

I've found that I can fix the problem by commenting out QUERYITEM from
demo.map : 

#  QUERYITEM usclass
#  QUERY
#    EXPRESSION "421"
#    TEMPLATE lakes.html
#    JOIN "data/lakejoin.dbf" islake "type"
#  END
#  QUERY
#  EXPRESSION "^-"
#    TEMPLATE land.html
#    JOIN "data/lakejoin.dbf" islake "type"
#  END

You can see this working at
http://www.cat.org.au/mapserv/ms_demo2/demo_init.html .
Of course the queries don't work.  So my question is how do I get the
queries to work?

Cameron Shorter
61.2.9901-1596 work.