[mapserver-users] DBF JOINS for Thematic Layers

[Richard Greenwood]

Joins do not work in MS 3.5 and 3.6. They are supposed to be functional 
again in 3.7 And they do work in 3.3. Otherwise your syntax looks correct.

Sorry for the bad news,
Rich

At 04:41 PM 11/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I want to join a single dbf file to a shape file so I can make a thematic
>layer.  My layer definition looks like:
>
>LAYER
>   NAME "SizeTheme"
>   STATUS ON
>   DATA "sizelyr"
>   TYPE POLYGON
>
>   CLASSITEM Size
>
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Size > 10"
>
>     JOIN
>         NAME bsize
>         TABLE "SZ.DBF"
>         FROM "data"
>         TO "id"
>         TYPE SINGLE
>     END
>
>     EXPRESSION ('[Size]' > 10)
>     OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
>     COLOR 255 240 240
>   END
>END
>
>
>Is this the correct method?
>
>John McCue
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Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
Greenwood Mapping, Inc.
Rich@GreenwoodMap.com
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