OrbisGIS offers features to manipulate data.
To display the layer’s attributes, select it in the TOC (or in the Geocatalog) and make a right-click --> "Open attributes" ( ).
A new tab appears in the UI with all the attributes.
Remarks
- On the top, the table name is displayed (in the illustration below "COMMUNE") with the number of (selected) objects,
- There is a dynamic link between a row in the table and the object displayed in the map. So, if you select a row in the table and make a right-click, you can zoom on the selection using the “Zoom to selection” tool (
),
- Primary key is identified with a specific icon (
),
- Numeric fields are aligned on the right. Other types of field (string, boolean, ...) are aligned on the left.
With a right-click on a row, the user can access to several options:
- Filter selected rows (
) (non-selected lines will be hidden),
- Create a datasource from the selection (
): export the selection into a new layer,
- Unselect (
),
- Zoom to selection (
),
- Reverse the selection (
),
- Select rows with the same value: search all the lines that has the same value in the selected field (
).
With a right-click on a column (field), the user can access to several options:
- Sort ascending (
) / descending (
),
- Unsort (
),
- Show column information (
),
- Show statistics (only for numeric fields) (
).
In the lower part of the window, there is a search engine that can be used in two ways: