[Gvsig_english] JOIN

[Kai-Christian Bruhn]

Dear list,

this and the related thread starts to convince me that I'm the problem 
in joining attribute tables and not gvSIG. Nevertheless, I tried several 
times to join an imported csv-file with a shape-dbf-file - and failed. 
So please dwell a little more on that subject.
The details:
gvSIG OA Digital Edition with Java 1.6.0_07 on XP Professional
A shapefile with 2D-points, an integer attribute fo_id and more string
type attribute fields.
A csv-file like this:
fo_id;type
1;burial
2;single finding
3;burial
4;pit
etc...
Both tables are in the project manager table view but join wouldn't
work. I guess the problem emerges already during the import
of the csv, as it seems to take the fo_id as a string type, not as
integer. So when trying to join fo_id from the shape-dbf the dropdown of
the last dialogue where to choose the field from the csv for joining is
empty. For testing I went the other way around, calling the imported csv
first and the shape-dbf second. The last dropdown then offers only the
string-type fields from the attribute table of the shape-dbf.

Is there any way to edit plain table data in gvsig?
Is there a way to assign types to imported table fields?
Does it need a csvt-file as in ogr2ogr csv-handling to assign types to data?

Or am I simply incapable?

Cheers

Kai

John Ladd schrieb:
> With a little help from Benjamin Ducke I determined what I was doing
> wrong re the JOIN function.  I was not paying attention to the buttons
> on the first of the four screens and was then making wrong assumptions
> re buttons on successive screens where the buttons were not clearly
> labelled.  In hindsight this sounds just careless on my part, but it
> underscores the problems faced by new users.  Somewhere long ago I
> read that in the process of developing software for third party use
> ~20% of the effort is generating software that works for the developer
> and ~80% of the effort is packaging the software so that the third
> party can use it.
> 
> thank you for your patience.
>