Feature Selection/Get Info

[rubydunes]

Thanks for the reply.

Here's the layer def for the Parcels shapefile:

LAYER
NAME Parcels
TYPE POLYGON
STATUS ON
DATA Parcels
TRANSPARENCY 45
TOLERANCE 3
TOLERANCEUNITS PIXELS
CLASSITEM OID
MAXSCALE 0
MINSCALE 0
SYMBOLSCALE 10000
LABELITEM 'PARCELID'
LABELMAXSCALE 20000
LABELMINSCALE 0
TRANSFORM TRUE
CLASS
EXPRESSION /./
TEMPLATE 'Parcels.html'
NAME Parcels
COLOR 197 217 151
OUTLINECOLOR 60 79 30
LABEL
FORCE TRUE
WRAP '@'
COLOR 0 0 0
SHADOWCOLOR 64 0 0
SHADOWSIZE 0 0
TYPE TRUETYPE
FONT courier
SIZE 4
ANTIALIAS TRUE
POSITION CC
PARTIALS FALSE
MINDISTANCE 1
BUFFER 1
END
END
END

In my template (Parcels.html) that gets launched after
the query for Parcels shapefile I just have a couple
of test fields.  The file is simply:

[PARCELID]
[STREET]

Thanks for your time.

Bill

--- Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at DNR.STATE.MN.US> wrote:

> Hi Bill: Sounds like you're very close. Pasting in
> the layer def for parcels might help us diagnose 
> some possible problems. 
> 
> The item tags are case sensitive and must match
> what's in the datasource exactly. For
> shaefiles that's typically all upper case but I have
> run into .dbf files with mixed case names.
> I'd check the actual names to make sure those match
> the tags you're using.
> 
> Steve
> 
> >>> rubydunes <rubydunes at YAHOO.COM> 5/16/2006
> 2:14:02 PM >>>
> Hey folks.  I've tried everything and can't get a
> selection / get info tool to work.  I set the MODE
> to
> QUERY and then click on a feature and it goes to the
> template for the layer as it should, but all I see
> are
> the field tags and not the information that should
> replace them.
> 
> For example, if I click on a Parcel, the browser
> goes
> to Parcel.html (the template) but all I see is this:
> 
> [PARCELID]
> [STREET]
> [NUMBER]
> 
> etc...
> 
> I must be missing an important step that sends these
> valuse to the template file.  Right now it's like
> it's
> just opening the file.
> 
> Any ideas?  Thanks!!!
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
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