[MapServer-users] How to define/declare often used color definitions is a "centralized" file

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

Please clarify what you mean by "...COLOR can be defined by either RGB or hexa strings.It can also be defined as:   COLOR [MyAttribute] where MyAttribute is an attribute of the processed vector objet.In our usecase, this last option does not work.

Do you mean that you have tried to get the color from an attribute, but it does not work even it is documented to work 
https://mapserver.org/mapfile/style.html.
Or do you mean that in your project you cannot add a color attribute into you vector data?

-Jukka Rahkonen-


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Aihe: [MapServer-users] How to define/declare often used color definitions is a "centralized" file

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