[mapserver-users] Different color for each row and it's child
Steve Lime
Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us
Mon Sep 15 13:38:50 PDT 2008
Sharing the snippet of mapfile would help...
Steve
>>> On 9/15/2008 at 3:35 PM, in message
<944DCD961F4CD649BCEBB52E3C929F650270805A at usd-am-xch-01.am.trimblecorp.net>,
"Lee Keel" <lee_keel at trimble.com> wrote:
> David,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the reply, but I can't seem to get this to work. When I
> change my mapfile to use this new attribute column, that layer (and most
> all my others) go away and I get this as the response in FF:
>
>
>
> <HTML>
>
>
>
> <HEAD><TITLE>MapServer Message</TITLE></HEAD>
>
>
>
> <!-- MapServer version 5.0.0 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG
> OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT
>
>
>
> =SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
> SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER
>
>
>
> SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER
> SUPPORTS=FASTCGI SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS
>
>
>
> =GEOS INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE -->
>
>
>
> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
>
>
>
> getSymbol(): Symbol definition error. Parsing error near
> (symcolor):(line 1684)
>
>
>
> </BODY></HTML>
>
>
>
> I added the column to my query and add that column name, in [] to my
> class item. Is there something that I am missing?
>
>
>
> Please note: I have looked at the
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-19/ page and I think
> I understand what is required. But now I am thinking that this is not
> in MS4W 2.2.6. Can anyone answer if that is the case? And if so, is
> there another solution like this around that version?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lee
>
>
>
> From: Fawcett, David [mailto:David.Fawcett at state.mn.us]
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:51 AM
> To: Lee Keel; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Different color for each row and it's
> child
>
>
>
> I would suggest creating a column in table A to store a color value and
> pre-populating it. You would want to store the RGB triplet (e.g. '255 0
> 0'). I assume that you could have some sort of a stored proc that gets
> triggered when a new record gets added.
>
>
>
> Using the new attribute binding in MapServer 5, you could then just set
> the feature color by specifying the column name in the style in your map
> file layer definition.
>
>
>
> Something like:
>
>
>
> STYLE
>
> COLOR [myColorColumn]
>
> OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>
> END
>
>
>
> As soon as someone kicks the MapServer site server and it restarts, I
> suggest looking at the map file reference document under style.
>
>
>
> Also, make sure that your color column is specified in the query in your
> data statement.
>
>
>
> David.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Lee Keel
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:33 AM
> To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapserver-users] Different color for each row and it's
> child
>
> I had a client request something that sounds really cool, but I
> don't know how to do it (or if it is even possible in mapserver).
>
>
>
> First, my setup:
>
> I am running MS4W 2.6 on windows xp against postgis 8.2
> database. I have table A that has anywhere from 4 to 35 rows. And
> table B which could have several hundred rows each relating back to one
> of the rows from table A.
>
>
>
> For Example:
>
> TableA
>
>
>
> ID Name
>
> 1 t
>
> 2 t2
>
> 3 t3
>
> 4 t4
>
>
>
>
>
> TableB
>
> ID ta_id Value
>
> 1 1 something
>
> 2 1 something else
>
> 3 1 test
>
> 4 2 foo
>
> 5 2 bar
>
> 6 3 done
>
>
>
> Now my problem:
>
> The client would like to see all the rows rendered from tableA
> as different colors. These colors can be random, it doesn't matter. On
> top of this, they want to see all the associated rows in tableB as the
> same color as their parent from tableA.
>
>
>
> Can I add a column to tableA and use that as a value in the
> mapfile for the style? And if so, how?
>
>
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone can provide.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lee
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