Il 08/01/2010 8.02, Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd) ha scritto: > Hi, > > I was a little surprised not to find the ability to apply a > permanent filter to a shapefile based on the attributes in a table. > Say for example you wished only to show the polygons of a particular > vegetation type. At present, this appears only way to do this is > exporting those geometries to a new file.
Simon, there's actually the possibility to define a quite close "definition query": Layer Properties --> Simbology tab --> Categories tree --> Expressions option --> click on New expression of filter --> ...and so on The only missing feature is that the filter is not applied to the table of attributes. Hope this helps! Cheers, Antonio -- Antonio Falciano http://www.linkedin.com/in/antoniofalciano _______________________________________________ Gvsig_internacional mailing list Gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional