Can you show us some code or more details on what you use? Are you using a WMSCapabilitiesStore? Since it should use the title and fallback to the name:
values.layer = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS( layer.title || layer.name, url, params, options ); Best regards, Bart Bart van den Eijnden Front-end Developer | Boundless @boundlessgeo On Oct 2, 2013, at 4:31 AM, Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.more...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am developing a web app with GeoExt and using a layer tree. > > Layers are fetched from a WMS server (mapserver) but layers names in the tree > are used instead of wms_title parameter in the mapfile. > > Problem is that layers names are somewhat "ugly" due to mapserver > recommendation that [quote] a layer name should not contain spaces, special > characters and not begin with a number [/quote]. > > I know I can override mapserver recommendation but my question is: why GeoExt > does not use wms_title parameter in the mapfile? > > Regards > /raffaele > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@geoext.org > http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
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