[Qgis-user] Help with Vector Layer

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi,

If I understand well the problem you just need to clone your text column
into a new one, type integer. You can easily do it with the QGIS field
calculator.

cheers

-- Giovanni --

On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 09:58 -0600, Megan Carroll wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> I am working on a map where the main vector layer is organized by a
> typology that, while being text-based, still has value and order.
> However, when I initially tried to organize the layer, it does it
> alphabetically.  I have read through the user guide and did not see
> anything that could help me out.  The path I am pursuing now is
> creating another column in the attribute table, assigning the
> typologies numbers, and then sorting by those numbers, but there are
> over nine hundred counties in my map, and that would be tedious to say
> the least.  If that is the only thing that can be done, I'll do it,
> but is there a way I can a) sort the different typologies in a way
> that is not alphabetical or b) assign these typologies numerical
> values in another column quickly as opposed to going through and
> changing the values one by one?  Any and all assistance will be
> greatly appreciated.
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