[Mapserver-users] preventing certain layers from appearing inthegetCapabilities doc?

[Daniel Morissette]

Actually, during (and after) the OGC workshop at the MUM we talked about
using the 'DUMP FALSE' flag to explicitly request specific layers to not
be served via WMS with the default being to include all layers in WMS if
the DUMP value is not set.  

However when I came to implement that yesterday I realized that this
wouldn't work because the default value for DUMP is FALSE... so there is
no way at the moment for MapServer to differenciate between a layer in
which DUMP is explicitly set to FALSE or another one in which it is
simply not specified.  And we cannot change the default to TRUE because
that would make all layers available via WFS by default and we don't
want that.

... to avoid creating too much noise on this list, I have created a new
bug where the possible options should be discussed:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=337

Daniel



Jean-Francois.Doyon at ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca wrote:
> 
> Yup, that is correct, right now, you can't hide a WMS layer in a given
> mapfile, from showing up in GetCapabilities ... Weren't you paying attention
> in our workshop debbie ? :)
> 
> I haven't checked, but I'd encourage you to file a feature enhancement into
> the MapServer bugzilla about this if there isn't one already ... I could use
> that feature too :)
> 
> Cheers,
> J.F.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lowell Filak [mailto:lfilak at medinaco.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:17 PM
> To: Debbie Pagurek; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] preventing certain layers from appearing
> in thegetCapabilities doc?
> 
> If I recall a discussion from the User Meeting correctly, you will need to
> use a different Mapfile to do that.
> HTH
> Lowell F.
> 
> The following message was sent by "Debbie Pagurek" <pagurekd at agr.gc.ca> on
> Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:49:05 -0400.
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I have a mapfile that I am using for an web mapping interface, as well as
> doubling as a WMS server.  There are layers used in the interface that I
> don't want appearing in the getCapabilities document though and I thought I
> could prevent them from appearing there by omitting the METADATA tags for
> those layers, but that is not the case.  Is there a way to select which
> layers in a mapfile should appear in a GetCapabilities document?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Debbie
> >
> >