[OpenLayers-Users] Identify feature by attribute

[Jerome A. Wendell]

Greg,

Thank you very much for your reply.  Is there a way to input the feature
identifier, or would that have to be coded in a script?

Thanks,

Jerome Wendell


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Allensworth [mailto:gregor at greeninfo.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:10 PM
To: jawendell at digitalmapping.com
Cc: OpenLayers User List
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] Identify feature by attribute

On 1/8/2013 1:41 PM, Jerome A. Wendell wrote:
> I am new to OpenLayers and web mapping.  I have searched the examples 
> and help, and did not find any information on how to select a vector 
> on a vector layer by attribute.

Assuming you have your Control.SelectFeature already defined and working
with a click, you should be able to use its "select" method to manually feed
it a feature:


/// your Control
clicker = new OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature(blah blah);

// some arbitrary chosen Feature from the vector layer feature =
VECTORS.features[7];

// have the Select tool select this feature clicker.select(feature);


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