Yes, that did it, thanks Assefa, Steve. It actually said so in the CGI Reference Guide, with an example of the different calls for MapServer 4 and 5, so next time I'm going to read the manual completely to the end :-) Jan
________________________________ From: UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Steve Lime Sent: Tue 11/20/2007 6:55 AM To: MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Changing a layer's DATA via the URL in MapServer 5.0 Note that I believe you also need to set DATAPATTERN to a regex to restrict what values DATA can take. This isn't new but is required. Steve >>> Yewondwossen Assefa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/19/07 8:57 AM >>> Jan, You could try something like ...&map.layer[plan]=data+amby/verzamelplan.tif This seem to work. Best Regards, Jan Hartmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble with changing a layer's DATA in MapServer 5.0 via > the URL. In 4.10.0 the following works: > > datapattern ".*" > /cgi-bin/mapserv?map=...map&mapext=...&mapsize=...mode=map&map_layer_0_data=amby/verzamelplan.tif > > In 5.0 the same call causes the following error: > > getSymbol(): Symbol definition error. Parsing error near (0):(line 1) > > Changing the DATA part to: map_layer[0]_data, or map.layer[plan].data, > as described in the Migration Guide gives: > > loadLayer(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near > (amby/verzamelplan.tif):(line 1) > > > Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? > > Jan -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Assefa Yewondwossen Software Analyst Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dmsolutions.ca/ Phone: (613) 565-5056 (ext 14) Fax: (613) 565-0925 ----------------------------------------------------------------
