Re: [udig-users] Reshape...

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Silvia Franceschi wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to use the reshape function in Udig.
> I have a shapefile with some attributes and I want to add a column 
> containing a String that I will fill manually later.
> I tried to add the column but I can not find the way to add the column 
> with a specific type of data without copying the values of an other 
> column.
> This are the original shapefile attributes:
> the_geom=the_geom
> area=area
> perimetro=perimetro
> netnum=netnum
> quota=quota
>
> And I want to add the attribute
> basin=string
>
> Is it possible to do something like this?
Great question! The answer (I hope) is to use a string literal. Can you 
try the following:
the_geom=the_geom
area=area
perimetro=perimetro
netnum=netnum
quota=quota
basin=' '
> Usually I use OpenOffice for these type of problems but this shapefile 
> seems to be not editable from open office, I can modify it but not 
> save... and it is not a problem of permissions... I think this is a 
> problem due to the way people writes shapefile... But I don't know.. :-)
Cheers,
Jody