[OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile's dfb editing

[Silvia Franceschi]

Thanks to all!

The problem is in the length, but not in the column name but in the 
dimension of the "numbers" given in the column header. I really don't 
know exactly what they means... but it works!!
For example:
heigth,N,33,31
is not a valid length for an attribute column to be saved with OpenOffice.
If I change it into:
heigth,N,8,2
and in general if the sum of the last two numbers is less than 16 
(bytes...?) it works fine and I can save the edited dbf.

Thanks again for the attention,

Ciao

Silvia


M J wrote:
> I don't know if this would matter but file name length could be 
> something to look at.
>
> Some dbf files that open in Excel won't open in Access unless renamed 
> to 8 (I think) characters or less.
>
> Maybe if you rename it shorter and try it might work.
>
> Definitely be careful with a live shapefile dbf though - you should 
> probably rename the shapefile to a shorter name and then try to open 
> the dbf again.
>
> Nif
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com 
> <mailto:lblake at ksninc.com>> wrote:
>
>     Silvia,
>
>     I am surprised that Open Office couldn't open the DBF. Most open
>     source
>     desktop GIS programs like OpenJUMP can open and edit the attributes of
>     Shapefile. Is that an option?
>
>     If not, you could send me the file and I could see if I could open
>     it in
>     Microsoft Excel.
>
>     Landon
>     Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
>     Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
>
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>     Franceschi
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>     Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile's dfb editing
>
>     Hi all,
>     do some of you know how to edit a shapefile's dbf file?
>     I tried with OpenOffice Calc but I have the following error:
>     "Connection to file could not be established"
>     I have to add some attribute that I have in an other file and they
>     are a
>
>     lot of data.
>
>     Thanks in advance for help
>
>     Silvia
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