[Mapserver-users] itemnquery and [shpext]

[Oliver Wesp]

Dear List,
Maybe this is simple, cause I'm missing something. Maybe not. What I'm 
trying to do is to make a simple itemnquery (item/value) get the results 
and zoom the map to the extent of the result shapes. So what I thought I 
do is simply place [shpext] in my template file to get the extent and 
use this for creating the new map. Work fine except for the fact that 
the only thing I get back for [shpext] is '-1 -1 -1 -1'. Same for 
[shpmid] or any other extent related informationen about the shape. If I 
place mapext=[shapes] in my request (just to give it a shoot) mapserver 
tells me that it's not possible to generate a valid mapextent from 
selected shapes.

Here is the setting

-qlayer is of polygon type.
-Datasource is SDE (8.2)
-Mapserver is 3.6.1

and here is my request:

http://mymachine/cgi-bin/mapserv?
map=/var/apache/htdocs/project/myMap.map
&mode=itemnquery
&qLayer=myLayer
&map_myLayer_filter="ITEM='VALUE'"
&map_myLayer_data=SDEUSER.SDETABALE,SHAPE
&map_myLayer_header=templates/searchheader.html
&map_myLayer_template=templates/search.html
&map_myLayer_footer=templates/searchcellfooter.html

Any hint is appreciated.
regards
Oliver