GeoServer Catalogs actions¶

Adds a new style to the layer from the list of available ones in the catalog. The style is selected from the dialog:

If the layer is under a layer group item, the available commands can be used to re–order layers in the group or remove them.

Layers in a group can be configured through the following dialog:

Opens the QGIS symbology editor to edit the style of the layer. Some restrictions exist:

• If the style item is under a layer item, OpenGeo Explorer will get the attribute names of the layer, so you can use them for defining your symbology rules. The min and max values of those attributes in the layer are, however, not available, so you will not be able to use them to define ranges or categories.
• If the style item is not under the layer item, OpenGeo Explorer will try to find out if the style is used by any layer, and will use that layer in case it can find it. If several layers are using a style, the first one of them will be used. If no layer is found, the style will be opened for editing, but no field names will be available, as if it were corresponding to a QGIS layer with no attributes.

Labeling is not supported in this case when fetching the SLD style to edit. That means that you can add labeling to the style you define, and it will get correctly uploaded to the catalog, but if the style you are editing has some kind of labeling defined, it will not appear on the QGIS style editor, which will always has labeling disabled.

Editing a style using the QGIS symbology editor is only supported for vector styles.

Adds a new GeoWebCache layer from an existing layer in the GeoServer catalog. The properties of the cached layer are defined in a dialog like the one shown below.

Launches a seeding operation for the cached layer. The operation is defined through the following dialog:

The area to seed has to be entered in the box in the bottom part of the dialog, with a string of 4 comma-separated values (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax). If no values are entered, the full extent of the layer to seed is used.

Another way of setting the seeding region is to click the Define on canvas button on the right side of the extent box. Then click and drag on the canvas to define the desired seeding region, and the dialog will be populated with the coordinates of the region.

When a seeding operation is started, the description box corresponding to the GWC layer being seeded will show the current state of the operation.

Since this operation might be very long, depending on the selected zoom levels and the area covered by the layer, progress in this case is not shown using the normal progress bar and hourglass mouse pointer. Instead, you can use QGIS as usual while the operation is running in the background, and to update the status, click the update link in the description box to get the current status. To stop the seeding operation, click the kill link.