I changed the names of the layers, so they were unique, and managed to get the 
layer group working, but we're only at an exploratory state.

We're going to be running a site that serves map data for 20+ different 
customers, each with its own data store, and each store having the same layer 
names.  Manually changing each of those 100+ layers is going to be a management 
headache.

Here's a question.

If I add a new data store to GeoServer, it creates a number of unpublished 
layers, each with the name of the individual shapefile, PostGIS table, etc. 
that is its source.

When I publish a layer, I can change the name of the layer, so that it no 
longer matches the underlying file/table in the data store.

How do I determine, within the GeoServer admin tool, the name of a layer's 
underlying file/table? The name of the layer can be changed, so we can't count 
on that.  We can see the name of the fields (Feature Type Details) on the layer 
page.  But I can't see the name of the feature, anywhere.

From: Charles Galpin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 7:36 AM
To: Jeff Dege
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Problems with adding layers to layer groups


On Mar 31, 2011, at 8:10 PM, Jeff Dege wrote:

In the "Choose new layer" dialog, I see the layers from all three of my stores 
and all three of my workspaces.  Many of the layer names are the same, of 
course, because the layers had the same name in the data stores.  But the 
stores and the workspaces all line up fine - the first layer named "county" is 
from store "map1" and is in workspace "map1", the second in "map2" and "map2", 
etc.

So since I'm creating a layer group for workspace 3, I select the "county" 
layer from data store "map3" and workspace "map3".

When I return to the "New Layer Group" page, I see the county layer from "map2" 
has been added to the layer group.  It's like it is picking the first layer 
with that name, rather than the layer I'd actually selected.

Has anybody run into this before?

Jeff, I ran into similar oddities having workspaces and stores with layers of 
the same name. I saw several different variants, including when deleting 
layers, but it almost seemed random and could not reproduce it every time, so I 
took the advice my doctor gives - if it hurts when you do that, stop doing that 
:)

I think I opened a ticket for one of them.

charles
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