Thank you Cameron! It Works!!! So, to keep up my end of the deal: I have gotten a great start by reading the basic tutorial at http://communitymapbuilder.org/display/MAP/Tutorials and also
http://lyceum.massgis.state.ma.us/wiki/doku.php?id=mapbuilder:massgis_ma pbuilder_getting_started_tutorial , which seems to be by Saul Freeman and Aleda Freeman. I can see a place for a basic tutorial that describes the anatomy of mapbuilder map with the Config, the ogcContext and the Html files. In particular, the thing that would help me the most is a diagram showing the anatomy of the config file. I'm still a bit sketchy as to why some buttons/widgets must be inside the model context, and others go outside for example. So, I have a bit more to learn about how this all works before I write a tutorial. Once I finish the app I am making, I will offer it as an example, and could provide tutorial about how it was made. I am very impressed with the serious standards-based approach to this development project -- all the way down to the ieee standard conceptual organization! And I look forward to contributing. If you have any particular documentation tasks that you think a newbie such as myself might contribute, let me know. Thanks again! -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 1:26 AM To: Cote, Paul Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mapbuilder-users] Help with AoiForm Hi Paul, Any offer to write documentation is very attractive and worthy of a response. :) You seem to have a problem in your massgis_mbconfig.xml file. A widget determines which model it should render from the tree structure in the config file. In your case, <SetAoi> should be inside <Context id="mainMap">. Ie <models> <Context id="mainMap"> <widgets> .. <SetAoi> </widget> </Context> </models> Cote, Paul wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Sorry if this is posted twice. I was not subscriobed to the list the > first time, & so have no way of knowing if my previous attempt was > posted. Happy new year everyone! > > The post: > > I am new to MapBuilder but was amazed at how easy it was to make a web > page pointing to resources at my favorite GIS agency. > > Now I have spent about a week trying to add the aoiform widget and > have been reading all of the code and bootstrapping myself on > Javascript, XSLT, sarrissa and all the rest (which is certainly good > for me!) but I can't make the dad-gummed Aoi Form work!! My dream is > to have a nice web page where a user can drag a box on a map and I can > capture the bbox into a metadata form that they are filling out. It > will be so cool! > > I have successfully created a page with a model and added the SetAoi > button and a AoiForm widget, but I can't for the life of me cause the > aoi parameters to update in the form! I have a feeling I am missing > something that is easy and fundamental to someone who know what they > are doing. > > Here is the page http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/gis/mapbuilder/massgis.html > > you will see links to my config file and context documents at the > bottom of the page. > > If you can help me with this, I promise to help to improve the newbie > documentation for MapBuilder! > > Thanks > > Paul Cote > > Harvard Graduate School of Design > > Geographic Information Systems Specialist > > Lecturer in Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mapbuilder-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-users > -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mapbuilder-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mapbuilder-users
