Hello, Ok.. maybe I posted to quickly. I tried adding single quotes around my qstring value and it worked fine: ...mapserv?mode=itemquerymap&qlayer=mapsheet_textquery&qitem=Sheet&qstring='31f'&mapext=shapes Cheers, Liz Godwin _______________________________________________ Mapserver-users mailing list Mapserver-users@lists.gis.umn.edu http://lists.gis.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users