You are a genius. What a simple solution. I feel ashamed. Thank you very much.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Ramon Andinach <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 12/07/2011, at 03:26 , Lee wrote: > > > I've utilized the table join feature currently included in the 1.7 > release. I have a parcel ownership layer within a city environment. I have > selected some of these parcels and added them to a new shapefile. I'm > attempting to grab the data from the original parcel file and append it to > the new shapefile so I still have ownership information. When I do a table > join through properties, the information shows up in the attribute table... > but not in the .dbf file, nor can I edit it in the table editor plugin. > Therefore, I have no ability to edit how this information is displayed, or > print it along with a key. It seems the join only exists in the memory of > qgis, and it is never actually appended to the database file... > > > > Any ideas? > > > > -- > > all the best, > > Lee > > Yep, the join is only in the memory. But if you save (using "save as" or > "Save selection as"), the join should be preserved in the new file. > > So either you can join to your original layer, select the ones of interest > and resave that new shape file, or > Join to your new shape file and save as a new shape file. > > Hope that's of some use. > > -ramon._______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- all the best, Lee
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