Hello,
I have centerline data from SHP file that I can either import or attach to. Has a few lines of object data with it including a centerline of road name. Each one unique. When I attach to the data, I can then "join" with it additional data from a database. When I select a line and look at the properties, it contains both the original object data AND the additional data from the database. SO far So good.
When I edit the style and try to add feature labels only part of the labels come in. I end up with a lot of them with only the letters "text" or just not there. If I right-click on the line and select "Show Data Table" I can confirm that there is data for that label. I find nothing in common with the map features that have labels, or don't have labels. Kind of random.
Question: If I import the SHP file and create object data I need to know if there is a way to "ADD" the rest of my data that is in the database to this object data. If so then I think I could define a Template and label each piece with the block with attributes. Is this possible? OR
Is it possible for me to export to a new SHP file after I have connected to the data (both shp file and database).
Thanks,
Daryl
KansasCAD wrote:Is it possible for me to export to a new SHP file after I have connected to the data (both shp file and database).
Of course, by means of _MAPEXPORT command, paying attention to check all the attributes you wanna export to.
I assumne you connected the imported shapefile to the other database using the link table options and the _MAPOD2ASE command. If so, like Antonio said, you can _MAPEXPORT and set your object data to use the linked table information for the new shapefile.
One potential warning: on my system (Map3D 2010 on Windows 7 64 bit with 16 GB RAM), it takes a very long time to run the mapexport with linked data. I just ran an export a few days ago with about 40,000 parcels, all with linked data, and it took about 26 hours to complete.