On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Stephen Chan wrote: > Just a confirmation. > Yup. Having trouble here w/ 7.8 and Windows XP > > Stupid Q and just out of curiosity though. > Why are you loading a template when you want to export the MetaData?
Basically, just trying to see how many errors I could raise in exploring how broken this app is. > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:24:04 -0700 (MST), Bill Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Anyone else have this problem? > > > > Using MapInfo 7.5 on Win2K: > > o Load the Mapinfo Table Manager under the Tools menu... > > o Open a table > > o Click Tools>Table Manager>Manage Tables > > o On the Table Manger (ver 2.3) dialog, check the Modify Metadata checkbox > > o In the Template groupbox control, choose Load, and select > > OGC_METADATA.mdt (in Program Files\MapInfo\Professional\Tools\) > > and press the Open button. > > > > This causes the bottom to drop out of my happy world, forcing me to watch > > Table Manager die horribly as it feebly utters its last words: > > "(tablemanager.mb:511) Subscript out of range." > > > > If you want to be savaged further, load Table Manager again, and this time > > choose Table Manager>Metadata Templates. Then load OGC_METADATA.mdt again. > > Click 'Done.' On the 'Save Changes to metadata?' dialog, click No. Now > > click Tools>Table Manager>Manage Tables. Choose 'Yes' when it asks you to > > 'Save Changes to metadata?' You will regret it. Now you'll have to suffer > > several errors of the "WriteMetaDataToTable: > > (metadatatableutilities.mb:65) Expression does not evaluate to a table or > > column name" persuasion. But at least Table Manager manages to stay > > upright and it comes back to its dialog. > > > > But all I really want to do is export an FGDC metadata file from a MapInfo > > table. Is this program capable of such a thing or is it just wasting my > > time? > > > > - Bill Thoen > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Message number: 15712 > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 15742
