Hi Vikram, I think that if you edit the layer and reload the featurestype (check image below, as a sample...at the end of the table, a link)..it should read the changes your applied to the shapefiles, and so, detect the new field added
[image: image.png] (the reload feature type link should detect the changes in the DBF associated to the shapefile, and list it). Is that what you wanted to do ? Regards On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 1:16 PM Vikram <vikram.es...@fleetroute.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a geoserver layer which feeds off a shapefile. When I add a new > field to the shapefile externally, I want it to be reflected in the > geoserver layer. Does anyone have an idea about this ? > > I see that one can externally add the new field to the featuretype.xml > file of the layer and that does the trick. But is that the only way ? > > Regards, > > Vikram > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > > Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to > this list: > - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: > http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ > - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: > http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html > > If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer > > > Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users >
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