User's Guide and Reference

Registering a view column as a layer

To find out what authorization you need to register a view column as a layer, see Authorization.

To register a view column as a layer:

1. Open the Create Spatial Layer window.
   1. From the Control Center window, expand the object tree until you find the Views folder for the views in the database that you use for spatial operations.
   2. Click the Views folder. The views are displayed in the contents pane on the right side of the window.
   3. Right-click the view that you want and click Spatial Extender --> Spatial Layers in the pop-up menu. The Spatial Layers window opens.
   4. From the Spatial Layers window, click Create. The Create Spatial Layer window opens.
2. Use the Layer column box to specify the column that you want to register as a layer.
3. In the Underlying spatial layer field, specify the name of the table column on which the selected view column is based. This table column must already be registered as a layer.
4. Click OK to register the specified view column as a layer.