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 <[email protected]> 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
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