[Mapserver-users] itemquery problem -- I'm pulling my hair out.

[Mac Birch]

Has anyone had any success using itemquery with MS 4.0 with IIS on 
XP-Professional? 

My map file extents have been carefully defined to include a box 
that is much, much larger than the theme coverage I'm searching.

All other aspects of the system work, but I still am getting the 
dreaded "Search returned no results. No matching record(s) found, 
layer and area of interest do not overlap." message.

Here's the .map file I'm using:

#
# Start of map file
#
NAME TESTQuery
STATUS ON
SIZE 480 520
EXTENT 1300000 1443024 4126986 -682424
SHAPEPATH "c:\myApplicationPath\buckscounty\GIS\data"

OUTPUTFORMAT
  NAME png
  DRIVER "GD/PNG"
  MIMETYPE "image/png"
  IMAGEMODE RGBA
  EXTENSION "png"
END

#
# Start of web interface definition
#
	
WEB
  #EMPTY ../../buckscounty/gis/RecNotFound.htm
  TEMPLATE queryResult.htm
  IMAGEPATH "e:\myimagepath\buckscounty\tmp\"
  # LOG "testQuery.log"
END

QUERYMAP
  STATUS ON
  STYLE HILITE
  COLOR 255 255 0
END

LAYER
  NAME boundaries
  DATA townBoundaries
  STATUS DEFAULT
  TYPE  polygon
  TEMPLATE queryResult.htm 
  CLASS
    COLOR 212 212 212
    OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
  END
END

END # Map File

Here's the essence of the form I'm submitting:

<form action="http://www.mydomain.com/gis/mapserver40-
png/mapserv.exe" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="map" 
value="../../mapPath/buckscounty/gis/testQuery.map">
<input type="hidden" name="mode" value="itemquery">
<input type="hidden" name="savequery" value="true">
<input type="hidden" name="qlayer" value="boundaries">
<input type="hidden" name="qitem" value="Name">
<input type="hidden" name="mapext" value="shapes">
<input type="submit" value="Submit Query">
<input name="qstring" size="45">
</form>

I have tried submitting just about every possible combination of 
qstring options I can think of. for example,

([Name] EQ 'Doylestown')
([Name] EQ "Doylestown")
('[Name]' IN 'Doylestown')
([Name] = 'Doylestown')
([Name] = "Doylestown")
('[Name]' EQ "Doylestown")
('[Name]' EQ 'Doylestown')
('[Name]' EQ Doylestown)  -- Yikes!!

etc. (I think you get the picture)

Upper/lower cases of the "Name" variable and "Doylestown" are 
identical to those that appear in the shapefile.dbf table

It appears that MS is simply not finding the requested variable in 
the qstring, so I even tried submitting strings that would always 
evaluate to TRUE, such as

(1 EQ 1)
(1 = 1)
(2 GE 1)
(2 <= 1)
([Name] EQ [Name]  etc.

Still, the same result.

Where have I gone wrong? Please share your success stories.

Much Appreciated

--Mac--