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

[Alexandre Dube]

Hi,

Alexandre Dube wrote:
> 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

I meant properties

>  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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