[maplab-users] Re: Question

[Jim Finerfrock]

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:
> 
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>>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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