[mapserver-users] line layer does not appear

[Puneet Kishor]

On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 01:28  AM, Toni Hernández wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> Is that mean that I can not show a layer and allow the user to make a 
> query
> filter (in some other window) at the same time?


no, not at all... its just that it seems your current filter is not 
matching anything. If you ask the program to match against some item, 
and nothing matches, then nothing will show.

make sure you've got the item name, values, etc., right.

pk/


ps. please reply to the entire list, so others may also be able to 
help/benefit. thanks.


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Puneet Kishor" <pkishor at geoanalytics.com>
> To: "'Toni Hernández'" <toni at giscampus.udg.es>;
> <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 7:48 PM
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] line layer does not appear
>
>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Toni Hernández [mailto:toni at giscampus.udg.es]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:00 PM
>>> To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>>> Subject: [mapserver-users] line layer does not appear
>>>
>>>
>>> hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I have a problem with a line layer.
>>> This is my .map file for the layer called carrers.
>>> The thing is that if I put # in front of FILTERITEM and
>>> FILTER the layer
>>> appears.
>>
>>
>>
>> are you trying to say that ordinarily (that is, if you *don't* have a 
>> # in
>> front of FILTERITEM and FILTER), the line layer "carrers" does not 
>> show?
>>
>>
>> When you don't have the # in front of the FILTER* keywords, there is
>> filtering going on. On those features from "carrers" will show up 
>> where
> the
>> item "nom" matches whatever the value of %name% happens to be. Perhaps
> there
>> is no match, hence nothing shows up. When you comment the filters out 
>> (by
>> putting # in front of them), the layer shows up because it is not 
>> being
> put
>> through the filter.
>>
>> Does this help?
>>
>> pk/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Anyone know why???
>>>
>>>
>>>  LAYER
>>>    NAME carrers
>>>    TYPE LINE
>>>    DATA carrers
>>>    STATUS on
>>>    FILTERITEM "Nom"
>>>    FILTER "%name%"
>>>    CLASS
>>>      NAME "l_carrers"
>>>      COLOR 0 255 0
>>>      TEMPLATE "carrers.html"
>>>    END
>>>    LABELITEM Nom
>>>    HEADER "cap_carrers.html"
>>>    FOOTER "peu_carrers.html"
>>>  END
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot
>>>