Hi Armando, Well, I realized that what I did was only 'editing' NOT 'rebuild' the table from the dataview. My bad. Sorry for the confusion. Joyce
________________________________ From: Armando Scalise <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [Maptitude] read only column Hi Joyce. > One suggestion in 2005 when this problem was posted was to `rebuild' the >table. Didn't seem to work. Could someone help? Would you please elaborate on what you did to 'rebuild' the table? Exporting to a ".bin" file would be the best solution. The number of records should not be a problem. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, fanz3302 <[email protected]> wrote: >This problem was posted back in 2005 but I still couldn't get it around: > >Mapping my own data of a .csv file, Maptitude decided to make all fields >imported as `read only'. There is no option of column setting when I tried to >create the new columns. Tried also to change the column setting by right click >the selected filed and click off the `read only' box, it didn't work either. > >One suggestion in 2005 when this problem was posted was to `rebuild' the >table. Didn't seem to work. Could someone help? > >There seems no problem if I map my data from Excel file but I have a rather >big file, ~1.4 millions obs. Anyone had a good experience using other file >types besides Excel and .csv? > >The main issue is still how to change the column settings in Maptitude. >Thanks, >Joyce > > -- Armando Scalise
