STATUS in LAYER object

[Steve Lime]

With the CGI application all layers are turned off (except those that are
DEFAULT) automatically. Then you must explicitly request layers via
the "layer" or "layers" parameters. Outside of the CGI the value for
STATUS is respected (e.g. shp2img)...

Steve

>>> "J. Parapar" <listario at GMAIL.COM> 09/09/05 10:39 AM >>>
Hello all.
 
Regarding this ¿what is the difference between STATUS ON and STATUS
OFF? In a CGI request both STATUS seem to have a similar effect, I can
activate the "OFF" layer with the layer paramater in the request. ¿Is
the diffence only in WMS/WFS petitions?
 
Thanks
Jorge

2005/9/9, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca>:
> Gregory Yetman wrote:
> >
> > Rather than changing the flag, I think that perhaps the documentation
> > just needs some additional info. It's not obvious from the definition of
> > STATUS when you should use ON vs. DEFAULT.
> >
> 
> Please feel free to help contribute to the documentation, and add what
> you think is missing.  http://ms.gis.umn.edu/ allows you to add comments
> to the docs (for example you could add a note in the LAYER section of
> the mapfile reference)...or I also see that an FAQ exists for your same
> issue http://ms.gis.umn.edu/docs/faq/default_vs_on_vs_off (feel free to
> add to it).
> 
> There are some versioning differences with the old site's docs and this
> one, but hopefully that will be resolved soon.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
> jeff
> 
> 
> 
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> Jeff McKenna
> DM Solutions Group Inc.
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