[maplab-users] query work now

[Paul Spencer]

Charlie,

this can also be affected by the value of TOLERANCE on the LAYER in your 
map file.  Setting TOLERANCE to 5 or 10 can help improve querying with a 
point tool like the HTML query.

Cheers

Paul

charley cheng wrote:

> Hi! Zak,
>  
> I final get the query work, the problem is that I select the standard 
> html tools under map tools option of GMapfactory. The i button can not 
> draw the rectengle around my point. I guess that the query function need 
> the coordinate of piont, it is hard to get the correct coodinate by 
> click only, it is necessary to draw the rectangle to include the point.
>  
> Thank you very much for  your help
>  
> Charlie
> 
> */Zak James <zak-ms at hoppsan.org>/* wrote:
> 
>     Charlie,
> 
>     Are you getting any error messages in your browser window or webserver
>     error log? Did you try turning the logging for gmapfactory on? It's
>     hard to make suggestions because the information you're giving isn't
>     very specific.
> 
>     zak
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>     Zak James
>     Applications and Software Development
>     DM Solutions Group Inc.
>     http://www.dmsolutions.ca
> 
> 
>     On Jul 27, 2004, at 3:49 PM, charley cheng wrote:
> 
>      > Hi! Dear list,
>      >
>      > I have to post my question again. I still could not find the easy
>     way
>      > to made query function work in maplab.
>      >
>      > I checked the turtorial example with maplab, for the popplace layer,
>      > it put ttt_query.html as template value. However, the i button does
>      > not work in the tutorial example either.
>      >
>      > Sorry for keeping ask the same question!
>      >
>      > Tha! nk you!
>      >
>      > Charlie
>      >
>      > Note: forwarded message attached.
>      >
>      >
>      >
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>      > From: charley cheng
>      > Date: July 22, 2004 1:38:10 PM EDT
>      > To: maplab help
>      > Subject: how to make the i button work
>      >
>      >
>      > Hi! Dear lists,
>      >
>      > The maplab i button (query) does not work. According to the previous
>      > forum from Jeff Mckenna (see below), I put the template html with
>     path
>      > or attribute value in DBF or ttt only in the template seting in
>      > mapedit. The return html is same, " the following layers did not
>      > return any results:---- plus all name of layer---".
>      >
>      > If I want to query dbf information in maplab, how I made the i
>     button
>      > work? In other word, how to set template parameter in mapedit?
>      >
>      > Some previous forum mentioned the query template does not work in
>      > maplab and the only way is to modify query.phtml in GMf_apps. Is it
>      > true?
>      >
>      > Thank you very much!!
>      >
>      > Charlie
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > Just a note: you can put the value for TEMPLATE in either the
>     CLASS or
>      > LAYER object. If you only have one class there will be no
>     difference.
>      > If
>      > you have more than one class and you want all classes to return
>      > results,
>      > put the TEMPLATE value in the LAYER object. If you have more than one
>      > class you will need to put a value for TEMPLATE in each class you
>     want
>      > queried. That way you can prevent certain classes from being
>     queried if
>      > you want.
>      >
>      > Jeff McKenna wrote:
>      >
>      >> Hi Paul,
>      >>
>      >> Yes it is possible to query the dbf files of shapefiles using
>     MapLab.
>      >> Simply add a TEMPL! ATE in the CLASS object of the layer that
>     you want
>      >> to query. MapLab looks for the word "TEMPLATE" in the class object.
>      >> The template value can be anything, the file does not exist so just
>      >> make up something. e.g.:
>      >>
>      >> LAYER
>      >> NAME "oceans"
>      >> STATUS ON
>      >> DATA "ocean75m"
>      >> TYPE POLYGON
>      >> UNITS METERS
>      >> CLASS
>      >> COLOR 0 0 200
>      >> TEMPLATE "ttt"
>      >> END
>      >> END
>      >>
>      >> obviously "ttt" is not a valid file, but MapLab just looks for the
>      >> presence of TEMPLATE in the CLASS object. Hope this helps.
>      >>
>      >> By the way, any further MapLab questions should be sent to the
>     MapLab
>      >> user list
>     (http://lists.dmsolutions.ca/mailman/listinfo/maplab-users)
>      >> so that developers and other MapLab users can help you. Thanks.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Jeff
>      >>
>      >>
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
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