Spotfire export shapefile or equivalent

[DivyaJyoti Rajdev]

We can add data table from a shapefile (*.shp) in spotfire by Add data table.

 

But somehow I can't export the geometries from the table to any of the suggested formats.

 

So my question is: how to export the shapefile geometries to a format that can successfully be read in as a geometry column in spotfire

 

Tried *.sbdf, doesn't work.

[Manoj Singh]

Whats is the Spotfire version in which you are trying the things

[DivyaJyoti Rajdev]

7.1

[Kirsten Smith (she/her)]

I did a quick test of this in 7.9 and it worked as expected. I opened a .shp file in Spotfire, exported it as a .sbdf file, then opened the .sbdf file in Spotfire and it showed the geometry column data correctly. When you open your .sbdf file in Spotfire do you get any warnings/errors If you look at the data in a table visualization, do you see the Geometry column and it's empty Are the other columns populated

[DivyaJyoti Rajdev]

So turns out, when I was trying to import *.sbdf, the geometry column was somehow getting picked up as string. When I changed that to binary again, it worked out well. Thanks for the testing.

[Nathan Burnett]

thank you for sharing.  i just tested in 7.14 and it worked.  there was one extra step for me.  when i imported the .sbdf that i had created, i had to change the column which held the polygon from binary to location in the data panel to view the shape.