[las_users] Re: LAS 7.0.3 categories question

Penny,

Oots, Penny C. (LARC-E301)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS] wrote:

I have been testing the LAS 7.0.3 V7 interface and ran smack into a major problem trying to use the categories.xml file I have been using for the last four years (http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/las/servlets/dataset).

As documented “The new rules for category construction prohibit mixing variables from different data sets into the same category.” Because we are using LAS to serve data to teachers, students, and interested public, we have grouped the datasets offered by more general categories.

Is there any chance you will reconsider this prohibition in a future release? I do realize that the ‘classic interface’ can use the categories but I thought I saw an email that the classic interface might not be supported in the future.

We will remove this restriction and fix the UI to work with categories like this in the next release which should be coming out in a few weeks. I have been keeping the version of LAS that is at the head of our source code repository on the FTP site as ftp://ftp.pmel.noaa.gov/pub/las/trunk.tar.gz. I will send an email to the list when this file contains the fixes necessary for v7 to work with these types of categories and folks that need that capability can start experimenting with that code. Keep on eye on the list for a message...

Roland

Penny Oots
Science Systems & Applications Inc.
NASA Langley Research Center, MS 157D
Hampton, VA 23681-2199
(757) 864-9816