Andrea,
Thank you so much for your response! I was trying to use Geoserver's
"Publish Again" feature for my PostGIS layer and was not renaming the new
layer. This was throwing back an error. Now that I know I can republish the
same layer by renaming it, I'll be able to apply different FreeMarker
templates. Problem solved!
Thanks again!!
JD
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Andrea Aime
<[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:53 PM, JD Godchaux <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I have a layer a PostGIS in Geoserver (2.1.3) with a FreeMarker template
>> (content.ftl) that resides in the type-specific Geoserver data directory -
>> in this case
>> /<geoserver_data_dir>/workspaces/<workspace>/<datastore>/<featuretype>/content.ftl.
>> This template works just fine in standard GetFeatureInfo requests.
>>
>> My problem comes when I want to use two different FreeMarker templates on
>> two different maps using the same Geoserver layer. I would like to have
>> different data and styles show up in the pop-ups for each map, and
>> currently, both maps are using the same FreeMarker template. Does anyone
>> know if what I'd like to do is possible in Geoserver?
>>
>> I've tried a few things so far, but without much success:
>>
>> - I thought about publishing the same PostGIS layer twice in
>> Geoserver, and this doens't appear to be possible. Geoserver will allow
>> you
>> to Publish Again," which overwrites previous configuration.
>>
>>
> Should not do that if you give it another name. With the same name it
> should give you an error though.
>
>
>>
>> - The FreeMarker template seems to just deal with data returned from
>> Geoserver and, since I'm making the same GetFeatureInfo request regardless
>> of the map I'm using, the same data are returned. There didn't appear to
>> be
>> anything I could in the content.ftl file to show different templates on
>> each map.
>> - The WMSGetFeatureInfo request from OpenLayers doesn't seem to allow
>> you to specify the map url as opposed to the standard WMS url.
>>
>> I'd be happy to provide more information on my specific situation if
>> needed, and thank you all for your help!!
>>
>
> Long story short, it's not possible to have different templates for the
> same layer, you'll have to publish
> the layer twice with two different names, and then add the templates in
> the two separate directories.
>
> Thinking about it, it should be possible to write code so that different
> templates are used for the
> same layer based on some vendor parameter, for example a way could be to
> specify a custom
> prefix in the request, &format_options=template_prefix:foo and have
> GeoServer look for
> foo_content.ftl instead of content.ftl. Of course this would need someone
> coding such new behavior.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
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