Hi, Start from something simple and try to use DAT with tiff file with %file% and make it to work first. I am pretty sure that is will work. Perhaps there is some trouble with validation or something. If you do not have a luck with RASTER make a similar vector layer and see if you can change %file% with a variable then.
Here are snippets from working vector data examples DATA "way from (select (way),osm_id,tags from osm_polygon where (tags @>'%tag%=>%value%')) as foo using unique osm_id using srid=3067" VALIDATION tag "." value "." END With this setting user must give both tag and value parameters as &tag=something&value=else. Defaults can be given as "default_tag" "amenity" "default_value" "toilets" -Jukka Rahkonen- ________________________________________ teknocreator wrote: > Thomas, > I'm not positive about what you wrote as I don't enclose the data string with '*'. The '*' in the "*_validation_pattern" I mentioned was just a wildcard for the RTS variables that I use as we use a few in the DB call I mentioned. However, when I tried what you suggested, the parser tries to find a file named ds_vis%fhour%.grb: msDrawMap(): Image handling error. Failed to draw layer named 'mosaic'. msDrawRasterLayerLow(): Unable to access file. Corrupt, empty or missing file '../grib/%file%' for layer 'mosaic'. I've tried variations on this using the full path enclosed in quotes (which throws the error above) and without (which throws the first one). Then tried this: DATA ../grib/%file%, (full path)/grib/%file% (with and without quotes), thinking I should pass the whole file name. I either get a parsing error for the '%' or it can't find the file because the quotes cause the parser to look for a filename with '%' in it. Dave M -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Run-time-Substitution-and-Raster-file-problem-tp4626749p4627796.html Sent from the Mapserver - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users