[mapserver-users] How to Turn off a Layer when other specific Layer is ON in a map file ?
Jeff McKenna
jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Tue Nov 23 13:58:07 PST 2021
Thanks Jukka, was that in CGI, or WMS modes?
Maybe I am testing wrong, ha.
-jeff
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Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/
On 2021-11-23 5:42 p.m., Rahkonen Jukka (MML) wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I know REQUIRES has worked in a positive way (show copyright when a layer is on) because I have used that feature but I do not admin that service any more and I can't check the details. Probably I used version 6.x then.
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>
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> Aihe: Re: [mapserver-users] How to Turn off a Layer when other specific Layer is ON in a map file ?
>
> To give a more detailed example of what *should* work:
>
> LAYER
> ..
> REQUIRES "![modis] OR ![someotherlayername]"
> END
>
> I'll continue my 8.0-dev testing...
>
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> --
> Jeff McKenna
> GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training co-founder of FOSS4G http://gatewaygeo.com/
>
>
> On 2021-11-23 5:29 p.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> I had a great answer drafted for you, tooting my own horn on the recent
>> MapServer tutorial updates for MapServer 8.x, and the demo server
>> updates...as by chance the tutorial mentions that the parameter
>> "REQUIRES" at the LAYER level should do exactly what you need, super :
>> but sadly my tests now fail with MapServer 8.0-dev, I cannot get
>> REQUIRES to work, such as:
>>
>> LAYER
>> ..
>> REQUIRES "![modis]"
>> END
>>
>> where modis is another layer name.
>>
>> Since I hadn't been testing this feature, and it is only briefly
>> mentioned in the tutorial (and not part of the live demo), I have no way
>> of saying when this should have worked, for what MapServer version. It
>> is part of the tutorial mapfiles, but the functionality is not working,
>> for my local tests.
>>
>> But your question has made me see more room for improvement in the
>> tutorial, and its mapfiles, so your question has helped.
>>
>> Sorry for my non-news, ha.
>>
>> I'll do more testing on this feature and report back.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
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