I am trying to add 3 different layer procedures in the properties of the map control section. Sometimes when I add the procedures,the marker groups will not appear below and sometimes they will appear.. It seems kind of glitchy .. has anyone experienced this? When this happens, I will receive the "incorrect parameter" error message when I try to save my updates.

Fortunately after several tries, I was able to get all 3 layer procedures saved and I had all 3 layers set to visible. However, when I run the map and click on the layers button, I am not able to hide and reshow certain layers... The control simply does not work for some reason. Initially the layers control has all 3 layer checkboxes "unchecked", even though - as I mentioned before, I had set all 3 layers to visible in the settings.

Lastly, layer 1 and layer 2 are stuck with the same marker image. If I try to change the marker image on layer 2 to a different png file, the marker group disappears and I am unable to save..

Can anyone shed some light on these problems?

I did download the 2008 census demo from http://ibigis.ibi.com/, got it running in my dev environment, and I understand how this demo works. I understand that they use the DECODE command to create different marker groups. Unfortunately, I cannot retrieve all 3 marker groups in one procedure. In my case, each of my 3 procedure retrieves a single marker group..

Thank you,

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I wanted to share some things I discovered concerning this topic.

In order for the layers control button to work properly , you must have AT LEAST 2 marker groups per layer. If you have only 1 marker group on a layer, the layers control button will not allow you to show/hide plot points.

Also, when you are setting up layers in the map properties area, make sure that your layer procedures do not have any code which checks to see the user that is currently logged into MRE.


For instance, we use the following code to define the WF user which is currently logged in.

  -SET &UC_USER_ID=IF (&IBIMR_user NE ' ') THEN &IBIMR_user ELSE 'NOUSERID';

-SET &UC_USER_ID=UPCASE(&UC_USER_ID.LENGTH, &UC_USER_ID, &UC_USER_ID);
-RUN"

Then we use this username to filter on, in order to pull the plot points associated with that user in our company DB.

WHERE UC_USERNAME EQ '&UC_USER_ID'; 

You should comment this code out, and hardcode a username while you are testing/developing the layers. Once your layers/ marker groups are setup properly, and your testing is complete, you should uncomment the code to check which user is logged in, if your application is user-dependent.

Lastly, it's a lot easier if you hard-code your marker images & tooltips in the layer procedure. Simply use a define like so:

  
IMAGE/A20='greenpin.png';
TOOLTIP/A100=VC_NAME;

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