[mapserver-users] hyperlinks

[Lime, Steve D (DNR)]

There are also URL templates where MapServer does substitutions in a URL using the result from
a single feature query and does the redirection for you. Whether that is appropriate here depends
on your needs.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:14 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] hyperlinks

On 3/20/2012 10:05 AM, Daniel Erklauer wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am researching my options for moving to a WMS and would like to know 
> if Mapserver is capable of handling hyperlinks that exists in my shape 
> files that I have created using Arcmap.  My hyperlinks are pdfs 
> located on my server.

The short answer is yes. The detailed answer involves how you might want to do that.

1. you can create a template to a query that has the hyperlink in it and even use some javascript to then jump immediately to the link

2. you can use mapserver to generate an image map the makes the hyperlink active

3. you can do this in OpenLayers, via WFS or WMS get feature info, in addition to probably a few other ways.

4. I'm sure others will have other ways they have done it.

-Steve W
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