One option is to trigger MapServer queries on each click. How you do that depends on your client environment. For example, on this site:
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/maps/compass.html OpenLayers is used for the client. When a click is detected a MapServer query url is built and opened in a new window. With some feature types (for example, state parks) I the info needed to build a URL to another page on our site in the attribute table. I use those and a URL query template to redirect the browser to the appropriate page. For example: LAYER NAME 'state_parks' ... TEMPLATE 'http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/[PARK_DIR]/index.html' END Works great. You can't use a full URL (including the http://) in an attribute like this since MapServer needs to somehow tell the difference between a URL-based template and a file-based on. It's perfectly acceptable though to do something like: TEMPLATE 'http://[ATTRIBUTE]' Steve >>> On 9/25/2008 at 7:00 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Matej" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a mapfile with layer that has a large number of points on it. Every > point (well, many of them) has an attribute "hyperlink". What would be the > easiest way to achieve a "clickable" point and get that URL in a new window? > > Matej Serc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
