[OpenLayers-Users] Example of creating a POI with attributes

[Alexandre Dube]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for sharing. I tried it a little but couldn't make it work 
unfortunately. I'm pretty sure this is not a big deal, maybe something 
to do with this :

params: {
typename: layer.params.typename,
service: layer.params.service,
version: layer.params.version,
request: "DescribeFeatureType"
}

Sometimes, params values are in caps. Didn't try, but maybe layerParams 
= OpenLayers.Util.upperCaseObject(layers.params) then use it with upper 
cases parameters could do the trick.

Anyway, thanks again and keep up the good work.

Alexandre

Mike Adair wrote:
> I've added an example of using the WFS DescribeFeatureType response to 
> create a form in my sandbox at:
> http://svn.openlayers.org/sandbox/madair/examples/edit-feature-attributes.html
>
> It will require either the proxy to be set up or a local instance of 
> geoserver for the example to work.
>
> I haven't hooked the layer up to a save strategy yet, nor do I have a 
> DrawFeature control in there but it should show the main idea.
>
> Mike
>
> Roald de Wit wrote:
>   
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> If you could make this control availabe somehow, that would be great! 
>> It might be a nice candidate for an addin [1].
>>
>> Cheers, Roald
>>
>> [1] http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Addins
>>
>> Mike Adair wrote:
>>     
>>> I did a EditFeatureAttributes control a few months ago that first did 
>>> a WFS DescribeFeatureType query to determine the attributes for a 
>>> feature type and then created a form with inputs for each attribute.  
>>> It registered with featureAdded and featureSelected events on the WFS 
>>> layer to open and populate the form.  Clicking on a 'save' button 
>>> then triggered a Save strategy to do a WFS transaction to the DB.  I 
>>> seem to recall that it needed some extra information about attribute 
>>> types, primary keys, etc. but it was mostly driven from the 
>>> DescribeFeatureType response.
>>>
>>> I don't think there is an example online anywhere yet but I could 
>>> probably put the code somewhere if you were interested.
>>>
>>> Mike Adair
>>>
>>> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have a public page/example that demonstrates creating a 
>>>> point feature and adding text attributes to it? This seems like it 
>>>> would be a common use case.
>>>>
>>>> Creating the vector feature is straight forward. It would be nice if 
>>>> after you create the point, that you could click it and open a 
>>>> balloon with fields that you could fill in and a save|cancel button 
>>>> that would save it back to the server.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe this is two operations:
>>>>
>>>> 1) create or drag the marker for editing the location
>>>> 2) click to edit attributes or to delete marker
>>>>
>>>> Mostly unsure on the attributes and the best way to glue all this 
>>>> together.
>>>>
>>>> Suggestions and examples would be helpful.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>    -Steve
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