Cartoweb's displayed layers depend of the layers.ini file, which link the
layers in the mapfile with the layer tree in the user interface.
if you add new layers in the mapfile, you need to add the corresponding entries
in the layers.ini
maybe use a working project as template, and simply overwrite some files with
user specific content when needed, that should keep the maintenance time as low
as possible.
if the differences are only in the list of layers, you should have only a
couples of specific files by user to maintain: client_conf.ini (client side),
*projectname*.ini (server side), layers.ini (server side) and the server folder
renaming.
regards
Oliver
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Burn
To: Cartoweb-users@lists.maptools.org
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Cartoweb-users] Cartoweb beginner question
Hi Oliver,
thanks for the response, looking at the documentation it looks like I could
create projects programmatically for users and so have one for each user. The
project would need to get its data from a map file unique to the user which I
create as part of the main site process, but would I need to recreate the
project if the map file were altered e.g. new layers added or layers removed.
Cheers
Carl
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Oliver Christen
<oliver.chris...@camptocamp.com> wrote:
Hi Carl
the answer is probably no, not in the way you want to do it (ie. passing a
mapid in the url for example)
the mapfile is read very very early by Cartoweb and the consequence is one
mapfile is linked to one project.
so if you want to access more than one mapfile, you need to have as many
projects as you have of mapfiles.
now it's quite easy to duplicate a project, expecially if the only thing
that change is the project name and the map id.
and projects can be selected with one parameter in the url for example:
client.php?project=demoPlugins
but that maybe be a bit more work than what you want.
regards
Oliver
----- Original Message -----
From: Carl Burn
To: Cartoweb-users@lists.maptools.org
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 1:52 PM
Subject: [Cartoweb-users] Cartoweb beginner question
Hi,
new to cartoweb but not to mapserver. I need to know if the following is
possible with Cartoweb or not. I need to be able to forward users to an
installation of Cartoweb from our site passing with them url parameters (a map
file name) to enable a specific map file to be used on the map server which
will contain a set of layers unique to them.
Is this possible, if so can anyone point me to the docs/how to that would
get me started?
Cheers
Burnsy
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