Howdy Charles:

I've upped the logging level and will see if I can make sense of anything.

Can I just follow the "how to publish 30 layers" thread just a bit further?

When you say:

 > The idea is you publish this layer once, with all attributes exposed

I'm not sure how to "expose" all the attributes? Following my original 
scenario, I added a new resource, which allowed me to select the one 
shapefile table from the PostGIS store. At what point am I able to 
expose all the attributes? Do you mean (under the [Publishing tab]) to 
move all the relevant styles over to the [Selected styles] pane? If this 
works how I think it works, then what we get delivered to the user is a 
*single layer* that can be selected in the map viewer. If the user is 
cluey, they can right click, choose to Edit Style, and then browse a 
drop-down list of the 30 different styles. That's interesting, and 
certainly saves data storage space, but how can the user see 2 layers at 
once? And how do we display the human-friendly layer title in the layer 
panel? I think these are the key deliverables I have to provide...and 
the "edit style" strategy seems to go a different conceptual path?

The CSS editor looks interesting: this would cut the effort of uploading 
SLDs.

Kind regards,
JB

John Brisbin
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On 6/10/2011 12:28 AM, Charles Galpin wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 8:49 AM, John Brisbin wrote:
>
>>        java.lang.NullPointerException
>>
> Time to look at the logs.  If you don't see enough detail increase the level
>
> http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/webadmin/server/globalsettings.html
>
>> Regarding the single layer vs 30 layers...this sounds enticing, but I'm
>> still confused:
>>
>> We want the user to be able to turn any one of the 30 "layers" on or off
>> to see that styled data (or combination of data layers) on the map. (eg,
>> they might want to see fish species richness and turtle species richness
>> on the same map. These are two of the attribute columns)
> The idea is you publish this layer once, with all attributes exposed.  Then 
> you make a different style for each kind of data and this style just works 
> with the attributes it cares about. Then from your client you use the same 
> layer but specify a different style.
>
> I encourage you to take a look at the css plugin if you haven't. It makes 
> creating style very easy and manageable.
>
> http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/community/css/index.html
>
> hth
> charles
>
>

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