creat database in Bentley Map Enterprise v8i (SELECT series3)

It sounds like you have graphics in a drawing and no database. you want to add the attribute properties to the geometry in the drawing. This is one approach.

• Decide what attributes you want to track for the features (land plots for example).
• Decide if you want the geometry to be stored in the DB or not. If you do not want to store the geometry in the DB then a simple relational database engine is fine ( Access, MySQL, etc.). If you want the geometry to be stored ion the DB, then you are going to have to use Oracle or SQL Server.
• Create the attribute tables.
• Using the Geospatial Administrator ( there is a course on this called Bentley Map Administrator), setup the project. This WILL take a bit to do, give yourself some time to do this. Remember to create promote functionality for your features.
• Start Map using the project.
• Select the geometry for the land plots.
• Promote to the land plot feature(s).
• Edit attributes for each feature instance. There is a way in the promote process to populate the attributes that have the same value across all feature instances.

I hope this helps.

As others have expressed there are courses for this on the learn server. The one course mentioned above should give you most of what you need.

hoaung,

Scroll-down to the bottom of this list and read the "Recommended GSA Workflow".  Jerry wrote it to show the basic steps to create a Bentley Map XFM Schema.

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If I understand you , you have data from Mapinfo. Are you importing this data into Bentley Map ? and then you review this data in the data browser, right ?

If that is the workflow, then I may suggest looking at the steps I outlined in a earlier post, but when importing the Mapinfo data, set the import featre to be mapped to one of the features you created in the GSA project. Then map the fields from this mapinfo feature to the fields of the GSA feature. here is a blog post that explains the process.

http://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/jerry_walter_-_bentleys_blog/archive/2010/01/29/bentley-map-importing-shape-data-into-xfm-project

Though it talks about a shapefile, the process is the same for MapInfo files also.

To add properties, open the XFM Schema with the Geospatial Administrator.  Then Browse to your Feature, right-click on the Properties item, and select Add > and the type of property you wish to include.

And this is how it looks in the GSA:

Hi,

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So if I want to create additional columns in the DATA attribute to it in Brower must do like?

A note which I think can help you to understand Bentley Map concepts: What you mentioned as "table" in your picture is not database table, so to think in terms "add a column to database" can leads to a confusion. The displayed grid is a kind of summary of data received from all elements representing the same feature. The data can come from different sources: DGN file itseld, external relation database or external spatial database.

If you imported your data directly to DGN file as demonstrated in Jerry's tutorial, all data are in DGN file (which is typical XFM technology feature), but there is no database table inside DGN. The data are attached directly to elements in a proper structure, so to "add a column" would require to change this data structure at all element instances, which cannot be done by a user.

If you choose a way through Geospatial Administrator, to add new property (column) to a particular feature is easier, because it can be done in GSA as described by Dan.

With regards,

  Jan

Hi , thanks you Jan .I understood my problem. the step  to make a complete map in Bentley Map is not like I thought, so I went off track. Now you can explain the steps to create a map of Bentley Map so I can understand it better?