Assign special dbf to shapefile

[Holger Floerke]

Hi Siki,

> It is possible to join a shape to an external dbf (see JOIN in the map
> file reference), but as far as I know it works in query mode only :(
When I saw this JOIN attribute in the mapfile documentation, I tought of the
solution of my problem, too. But then I looked at the documentation and was
some kind of dissapointed. I would like to use the data within the
expression field of my (dynamically created) classes. In spite of everything
thanks for your answer.

HolgeR


Siki Zoltan schrieb:
> Hi,
>
>
> It is possible to join a shape to an external dbf (see JOIN in the map
> file reference), but as far as I know it works in query mode only :(
>
> Bye
> Zoltan
>
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Holger Floerke wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Jacob,
>>
>>
>>>Why would you not want to join them?
>>
>>If the information I would like to present is evaluated at runtime, I have
>>to produce a full set of ".shp", ".dbf", "sbx", "sbn", and ".shx" files. The
>>shapes always stays the same, but the data is extracted from a database on a
>>user's query. I would like to save space by not copying the shape
>>information every time.
>>
>>
>>>unless if you created a join on a dbf, and accessed it separately.
>>
>>Is it possible to join external data sources (one or more dbf-files or
>>oci-sources) to shape files at runtime with the mapserver-api?
>>
>>HolgeR