SV: [mapserver-users] Generic template for WMS GetFeatureInfo

[Hollingbery, Julian]

Hi Steve, 
 
thanks for the tip. Most of my users have desktop GIS systems (MapInfo,
ArcMap, etc.), but I might test whether these support a JavaScript-based
solution. 
In the mean time, could you expand a bit on the "new-style templates"?
All I have done so far is according to
http://mapserver.org/mapfile/template.html#template, and I don't
remember that this says anything about inclusion of subtemplates.
 
Julian

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Fra: Steve Lime [mailto:sdlime at gmail.com] 
Sendt: 15. september 2011 20:43
Til: Hollingbery, Julian
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
Emne: Re: [mapserver-users] Generic template for WMS GetFeatureInfo


Hi Julian: You might try the [items] and [values] template tags combined
with a little JavaScript. Those tags output a delimited list of items
and values for a feature or set of features. You could split the output
into arrays and display however you like. The attributes are just
slammed together into 1 comma delimited string, so this approach won't
work if your attribute data contains commas I fear. The same template in
theory could be used for any layer then... You could use new-style
templates (e.g. Via output formats) with template includes and handle
this with 2 files- the main template and the shared include...

I notice those tags aren't documented so I'll create a ticket to do so.
Should also probably enhance those tags, at least the values one, to
take some simple formatting options.

Steve

Sent from my iPad

On Sep 14, 2011, at 8:39 AM, "Hollingbery, Julian" <julho at kms.dk> wrote:



	Hi list, 

	I too want to serve GetFeatureInfo requests. However, I wonder
if it is necessary to have a template per layer, when all I want to do
is "show all attribute values in a HTML table". The thing is, I have a
handful of services with approx. 40 layers in each. Each layer has on
average a dozen attributes, so all in all, I am looking to simplify
maintenance of 2000 HTML table cells. Has anyone done anything in a
script or otherwise, so that one can use the same template file on
layers with varying attribute lists?

	I am considering utilising the fact that a TEMPLATE statement
can reference a URL: I imagine that this might refer to a PHP-script,
which takes e.g. a database table name, and returns a HTML response with
the column names. Has anyone done anything like this?

	Regards, 
	Julian Hollingbery 

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