[MIP] Multi-view Identify with external data and media rendering

[Stefano Bovio]

Hi all,

I would like to keep the mailing list informed about a new proposed MIP for improving the Identify feature. Today each layer can expose only a single featureInfo, which limits how much and how varied the information shown on click can be. The idea is to let a layer configure multiple Identify views, rendered as tabs, so the same click can present different slices of information side by side.

On top of this it adds a view type that drills into a separate WFS source via a CQL template built from the clicked feature, and per-attribute media rendering (images, video, audio, panoramas, PDFs, links, iframes). The same attributes editor and renderers are reused by the existing PROPERTIES view.

Everything stays backwards compatible: existing saved maps keep working, since a legacy single featureInfo is normalized into a one-view configuration.

The full proposal, scope and acceptance criteria are in the MIP issue: https://github.com/geosolutions-it/MapStore2/issues/12594

Feedback are welcome.

Thanks,
Stefano