Last time I checked, the "Expression" type filter you mention below did not work on fields joined from an external table. I think this is the problem that Simon ran into.
Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antonio Falciano" <afalci...@yahoo.it> To: "Users and Developers mailing list" <gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es> Sent: Friday, January 8, 2010 11:21:29 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: [Gvsig_english] SUGGESTED FUNCTIONALITY gvSIG 1.9 (BN 1253) -- Permanent Filter Shapefiles 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 ------ Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://iso26300.info for more information. _______________________________________________ Gvsig_internacional mailing list Gvsig_internacional@listserv.gva.es http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional