[mapserver-users] MapServer WMS don't work pretty well with arcgis desktop

[Andrea Peri]

Hi Andrea.

Is exactly as you say.

Arcgis refuse to call

The fact is exactly this.

Wrong to understand a Layer with Name.

If a layer has some sublayer , arcgis call the sublayers but skip the
layer himself
This happened both case with name and without name.
So arcgis think that a layer is always a "containing category" always
if it has some sublayers.

> So, by my understanding of the spec, if your parent Layer does not have a
> Name
> ArcGis is right in not calling it, but if it has a Name, then it's a bug in
> ArcGis.

Ok, so this is an arcgis bug.

But I'm not sure that the esri think this is a bug . :)

Because arcgis 9.3 is a old release and their service pack never resolve this.
Instead esri release a specific version of arcgis named "arcgis for inspire"

Now I try to find a work-around for this bug. In the MapServer configuration,
i don't like to lost all the arcgis 9.3 users.

Andrea.

2012/12/15 Andrea Aime <andrea.aime at geo-solutions.it>:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Andrea Peri <aperi2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having more user to report that the WMS MapServer is not shpwed on
>> arcgis desktop.
>>
>> After a check I see that the issue i due to the fact that arcgis
>> desktop when see a sublayer of a layer think that the layer is a
>> folder (not a layer) and so
>> it refuse to call it.
>>
>> Is this a knowed incompatibility between mapserver wms and arcgis ?
>
>
> Don't know if it's relevant, but I've been reading the portion of the WMS
> spec concerning
> nested layers just a few days ago.
> When nesting layers there are two cases:
> - the parent layer has a Title, but not a Name. This is known as "containing
> category",
>   it helps categorizing the layers but cannot be called directly
> - the parent layer has a Name, in such case it is callable and when
> requested
>   it should build a map with all the children
>
> So, by my understanding of the spec, if your parent Layer does not have a
> Name
> ArcGis is right in not calling it, but if it has a Name, then it's a bug in
> ArcGis.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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