[Cartoweb-users] Problem ini file parsing and question about switches

[Alexandre Saunier]

The answers to your questions are:
1. yes
2. no.

Sessions are distinct from a project to an other in order to avoid 
conflicts and unexpected logins (you login in project A and thus would 
be logged in in project B as well whereas you have no credential to do 
so...)

Dirk Jesko wrote:
> Thanks. That's an option I did not think of yet. Before I test it, two 
> questions:
> 
> 1. Do users have to login again when they switch between projects? This 
> would possibly be a problem.
> 
> 2. Are the session data (annotations, current extent, ...) kept when 
> switching between projects? I guess not.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Dirk
> 
> 
> Oliver Christen wrote:
> 
>> as far I as know how the childrenswitching system work, it switchs 
>> layers (or layerGroups), not mapfiles
>> if only generate one mapfile, but give the layers an additional id 
>> corresponding to a selected switch
>>
>> after discussing a bit with one of my colleague, the only way you have 
>> is to "duplicate" your projects and set in each a different mapfile
>> then you can use the project switcher menu to change easily from one 
>> to another
>> see the "Choose project" menu in http://www.cartoweb.org/demos/client.php
>> name it "Choose mapfile" and the users wont notice they effectively 
>> change of project
>>
>> to make things easier, one can certainly imagine to have the file of 
>> the projects "copies" to simply use symbolic links to the original 
>> project, with just the few different files in hard, like layers.ini 
>> and the mapfile
>> or use a automated deploying/copying script to generate the project 
>> copies easily
>>
>> regards
>> Oliver
>>
>>
>>> Hello Oliver,
>>>
>>> thanks. That worked. Maybe, you could help me with the other question 
>>> that I wrote in the original post?
>>>
>>> "I am still looking for a possibility to handle more than 200 layers 
>>> in one project. Since an extended plugin and recompiling mapserver 
>>> are (currently) not an option, I thought about using children 
>>> switching. Therefore, I divided the layers into two groups with less 
>>> than 200 layers each and assigned a switch to each group. The map 
>>> files for the switches are generated, but each file contains all 
>>> layers. Based on the documentation I thought that the mapfiles 
>>> generated for one switch would only contain the necessary layers. Am 
>>> I doing something wrong? Is it possible at all to handle that many 
>>> layers using children switching?"
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks very much,
>>> Dirk
>>>
>>
>>
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