bugs : msDBFGetItemIndex(): DBASE file error. Item not found

[Andreas Albarello]

Fabio D'Ovidio wrote:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=674
> 
> Is this bug solved ? I am using mapserver 4.8.3 on Windows
> 
> Please I am trying to do this but I am not able to query the JOIN table 
> or display my classification on "LIVELLO" item . Please HELP !  :

Fabio,

no, this "bug" (I'd say this is a missing feature rather than a bug) has 
not been solved and I don't expect it to be solved anytime soon.

To clear things up a bit (the documentation is not very detailed about 
this), this is what holds true as far as I know: you can't query a map 
or a layer on one of its joined fields (I'm referring to joins using the 
JOIN object only), you can't set the labelitem or the classitem to one 
of the joined fields etc. Basically you can't do *anything* with them at 
all except for displaying their contents on a HTML template.

It should however be possible to do what you want using OGR. Please 
refer to this document for a howto:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/ogr_howto

Best regards,
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