Thanks for the double check, I open a ticket. Could Vector/Data Management Tools/Join Attributes be made available again?
Agus 2011/12/19 Ramon Andiñach <[email protected]>: > > On 19/12/2011, at 6:57, Ramon Andiñach <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 19/12/2011, at 03:15 , Agustin Lobo wrote: >> >>> I use Properties/JOINS to join a dbf table to a vector layer >>> (fields ISO and ISO3 respectively). The Join works, but >>> I get the following error when I try to save the vector layer as >>> a new shapefile: >>> Export to vector file failed. >>> Error: Feature write errors: >>> Invalid variant type for field X[11]: received void with type >>> Invalid variant type for field X[11]: received void with type >>> (many times repeated) >>> Only 24 of 246 features written. >>> >>> The new layer is actually written (despite claiming "Export to vector >>> failed") but only those countries with data in the dbf are available >>> >>> Instead, the old Vector/Data Management Tools/Join Attributes >>> works fine. I suggest having that part of the Vector plugin back, even >>> if redundant, until we reach operational equivalence. >>> >>> I provide the layer and dbf: >>> https://sites.google.com/site/filestemp2/home/wrld_simpl.zip >>> https://sites.google.com/site/filestemp2/home/owlslive.dbf >>> >>> I'm using 1.7.3 from ubuntigis-unstable binaries for ubuntu 10.04 >>> >> >> I can confirm this. >> >> I also tried removing the X column from the dbf file, but the error moved to >> the next field with nulls (GMI_CNTRY), which was a string. >> >> I'm a little puzzled why a null value would be a problem if the file did >> save successfully. > > fwiw, this also fails if you reprocess the owl data as csv (with a csvt). > > And confirmed with some internal datasets. > > (that said, I can understand why you would want to save the joined file, but > generally I use this as an intermediate step.) > > -ramon._______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
