Creating a New Feature Join

Creating a feature join involves the following general steps:

• Select the primary resource (for example, Counties).
• Select the secondary resource (for example, Population).
• Match the feature classes (a feature class is equivalent to a table, for example, Counties and Population).
• Enter a name for the joined feature class (appears inlayer feature class list).
• Map the identifying properties (for example, ID and CountyID).

To create a feature join

1. In Site Explorer, double-click the feature source for which you want to create a feature join.

   This is the primary feature source.

2. In the Join With Other Feature Sources (optional) pane, click New Join.
3. Select a table from the Primary Feature Class (Table) list.
4. In the Name Of This Joined Feature Class field, enter the name that you want to be displayed in the layer feature class list.
5. In the Joins Within Feature Source “<name>” tree list, click the New Join node.
6. For the Secondary Source, click ... to select the feature source with which you want to create a join.
7. Select a table from the Secondary Class (Table) list.
8. In the Name Of This Secondary Join field, enter the name that you want to appear as a prefix in the property lists.
9. Under Match This Column From A Tabel On The Left, select a column from the primary feature source.
10. Under With This Column from Secondary Class, select a column from the secondary feature source.
11. Under Type Of Join, make a selection.
12. Under Releationship With Secondary Records (Cardinality), make a selection.
13. On the Autodesk Infrastructure Studio toolbar, click Save to store the updated resource definition in the repository.

Note:

To preview the new join, see Previewing the Data.