[Gvsig_english] .DBF MANIPULATION

[Simon Cropper]

On 25/05/12 01:55, Andre Pais wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a couple of problems for which I would appreciate an answer:
>
> 1 - Since gvSIG doesn´t allow to create tables, I created one in ArcCatalog.
> I also edited the table using Arcmap (new fields that were edited). Why
> isn´t it possible to add a table to a project in which I have vectorial
> layers??????

Add the table in the project. Click on Table - New and select you new file.

> 2 - Given this, what is the point of having the option JOIN if I can´t have
> both the .dbf table and the shapefile(which has of course a table associated
> with) in one same view?

When you are in your view, open your attribute table then select join. 
You can select the primary key of each table and a linked version will 
appear.

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