>As per Dave�s suggestion, I have the impression he is assuming there is 
>a one to one relatiobnship between source and target, so I am not sure 
>his method would be generally applicable

Even if you don't have a one-one relationship you can make it generally applicable...just don't join directly in non one-one cases.  Instead....lets say you are making your selection in layer B on field "select_fld".  Make "new_select_fld" in layer A of same type/length.  Tag the entire layer A with values of B.  Then make your selection set on layer A with this new field and NOT layer B.  Then you can make the set visible as Armando noted and Tag just the set of A. 
 
This way you only need to create one new field on layer A and no new fields on B (unless you are using multiple fields to select then add more).  Should work on all cases regardless of type (numeric/non-numeric).
 
Dave

David Twehues
Vogt Williams & Bowen LLC
(614) 225-9500
http://www.vwbresearch.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Armando Scalise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 9:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Maptitude] tagging using a selection set from SOURCE

Let me see if understand this correctly.

You have a layer A and a layer B.  There si a selection set S in layer
B.  You watn to tag just the elements in A that are within  the elements
in S, and would like to keep all the other elements in A untagged-

If this si what you want do as follows here is a potentail solution  ( I
am using you want to tag using a numeric field, if the field is a string
the procedure below needs to be modified).

    1) Create a new fiedl (my_new_field)  on B, and fill all records with 0
    2) on the dataview, display only the S set, and fill the field
created on 1  it iwht 1
    3) Create a new field in B  using this formula my_new_field *
tagging field
    4) Tag your field in A usign the formual you created on 3.

The elements in A overlapping the elements in S will be tagged
accrdogingly.  All other records will be tagged with a 0

Just my first thought. But I have the impression it sounds cumbersome so
it is quite possible there might be a simpler solution.

As per Dave�s suggestion, I have the impression he is assuming there is
a one to one relatiobnship between source and target, so I am not sure
his method would be generally applicable

Good luck



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>As the title suggests, I want to be able to tag a destination field
>using a selection set from the SOURCE layer.  I know this isn't
>possible but I'd like to put it on the wish list.  If anyone has any
>quick work arounds (short of creating a new temp layer for each piece
>of the source layer I want to use), I'm open to any suggestions.
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>TIA,
>Stephen
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