>>We are developing an application involving PostGis+Geoserver+QGIS, the 
>>application is basically a QGIS plugin, as client of Geoserver. We need to 
>>manage forms related to some spatial data (more than one form per spatial 
>>item). I would like to know if there is any way using Geoserver to manage the 
>>editing of these forms stored in a non spatial table. In summary, Is 
>>Geoserver capable of managing non spatial tables (including read and write)

>>Javier

>Hi Javier,
>yes, you can publish tables without geometries and do WFS-T on top of them, as 
>long as they are flat (e.g you are not trying to build a complex model, you 
>can have as many foreign keys as you like, but you'll have to publish them as 
>separate tables and issue separate update/insert/delete statements for each, 
>all bound in the same WFS-T transaction).

>Cheers
>Andrea

Javier -

If you're working in Postgres/PostGIS and you need to do something more 
complicated (but still want to keep data-entry simple), you might be able to 
set up a VIEW with INSERT-rules. so that you can maintain normalized tables in 
the database while still keeping things easy for clients.

- Patrick O'Toole

Application Developer
Wyoming Natural Diversity Database
UW Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center
Department 3381, 1000 E. University Av.
Laramie, WY 82071
P: 307-766-3018

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