Working with Views | |
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Please read the documentation of the Mapserver and read the Maps Mapfile Tutorial if you need to learn the basics of a Mapfile. | |
Creating Views | |
Specifing the View | |
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The VIEW must be used as VIEW1,VIEW2,VIEW(n)...VIEW30. Followed by a location id/location name and the extents in double qoutes. VIEW1 "location id, " VIEW2 "location id, " VIEW3 "location id, " ... ... VIEW30 "location id, "
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Set View Extents | |
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Get the map extents for the view you want to display and set the minx, miny, maxx, maxy values inside the double qoutes " " separated by coma ','. VIEW1 "location id,minx,miny,maxx,maxy"
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Adding in the Views | |
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A Mapfile contains a WEB object. Inside the WEB object the METADATA keyword can be used to store your views and close it with an END. You can have up to a maximum of 30 views. #
# Start of web interface definition
#
WEB
...
....
.....
METADATA
VIEW1 "location id,minx,miny,maxx,maxy"
VIEW2 "location id,minx,miny,maxx,maxy"
VIEW3 "location id,minx,miny,maxx,maxy"
....
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VIEW30 "location id,minx,miny,maxx,maxy"
END
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END
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