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 <lbl...@ksninc.com
<mailto:lbl...@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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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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