[maplab-users] Re: Question

[woodbri@swoodbridge.com]

Sorry, I haven't done anything with PostGIS, maybe some of the other 
lister can help.

-Steve

On 11 Sep 2003 at 13:10, Jim Finerfrock wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> I have completed all the METADATA TAGS within my mapfile. All works
> returning column info when DATA is a shapefile, yet does not work when
> DATA is a PostGIS table. I have tried to even put the columns in the
> DATA statment and still nothing is returned. Any more ideas would be
> helpful.
> 
> Jim
> 
> woodbri@swoodbridge.com wrote:
> > James,
> > 
> > I believe you need to have the columns defined in a METADATA section
> > of the layer to tell maplab what columns to display. Applications
> > like maplab have different rules that they implement on top of
> > mapserver. So, mapserver has a set of minimal requirements and any
> > application built on it will add its own assumption on top of that,
> > like whether or not METADATA tags are required and what format they
> > are in.
> > 
> > -Steve
> > 
> > On 9 Sep 2003 at 7:10, James Finerfrock wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Thanks for getting back to me regarding this. I have finally gotten
> >>the multiple query to work.
> >>
> >>However, although it was a configuration issue, I had a question,
> >>since you brought it up, regarding TEMPLATES.
> >>
> >>I had TEMPLATE defined and also included in the DATA query those
> >>columns to return. However, using mablab it seems to be ignoring the
> >>actual template html and the PostGIS column query and instead
> >>returning all columns found in PostGIS. Is there something I missed
> >>here? To me these are both basic functions of Mapserver, yet I
> >>cannot get either to work....
> >>
> >>Thanks again for you time.
> >>
> >>Jim
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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