Hi Philip! I'm guessing that your workspaces use custom labels, i e where the user has dragged or altered the label for cartographic purposes. The backside of this is that such adjusted labels reference the RowID of their mother object, not any other identifying feature of the object, and that this info is stored in the workspace only. There are pros and cons for this practice, I will not go in to details here.
Now, if the base table is updated and items added or removed, the new rowids may reference completely different objects and there is not a thing you can do about it. Major PIA, I agree, but that's the way it is. Another common reason for label confusion is when items are removed and the table packed. This also messes up the RowIDs. Workaround: Never depend on custom labels, use them only as they come out of the tool. Meaning that you will have to live with overlapping labels I guess. OR Make sure that the base table never gets reordered, either by recreation or by packing, and if this eventually becomes necessary, be prepared to rearrange all custom labels afterwards. H�lsning / Best regards Mats.E ________________________ FB Engineering AB S�dra F�rstadsgatan 26 211 43 Malm� Tel: 040-660 25 50 Mobil: 0705-27 60 27 Fax: 040-660 25 99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.fbe.se [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-12-14 15:37 Till [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopia �rende MI-L Labels Moving improperly Group, I was wondering if this has happened to any of you. We use MapInfo 7.5. We have 7 users running on a server. We use 1 main point file with over 1600 retail center locations. 3 months ago, I updated the point file, without asking all users to get out of MapInfo. 2 days later, in many but, not all workspaces, a retail center label from San Francisco would show up in the Chicago workspace (Map View) and other locations throughout America. So, I thought that it was being corrupted because users were in MapInfo at the time of changes being made to the layer. I've since updated the point layer at night when no users are accessing MapInfo. Still, workspaces I just created 5 days ago have the messed up labels. All of the workspaces were saved from templates that have been created that contains all of the U.S. Any suggestions on a cure or reasons this is happening? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Lesnik Research Systems Analyst, Market Research General Growth Properties, Inc. 110 N. Wacker Drive BSC 3-13 Chicago, IL 60606 312-960-2998 312-960-5519 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Notice: This e-mail including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. �� 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 14549 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 14551
