Creating Reports Using Manifold 7.x

Manifold Professional version 7.x must be installed to make use of the capabilities demonstrated here. This tutorial contains 3 sections that demonstrate how to create a project file, link external data into the project and create a thematically formatted map from the database content. Manifold allows objects in the project file to be shared in a database. Items can be "linked" into other project files once the source content has been shared. 

• Section 1: Importing geometry data and linking to attribute data
• Section 2: Using queries to filter data and generate thematically formatted output
• Section 3: Linking Google satellite imagery
• Section 4: Adding point data
• Section 5: Georeferencing Digital Images
• Section 6: Creating a Google Earth KML File
• Section 7: Enterprise GIS
• Database Setup
• Using Enterprise GIS
• Section 8: Clipping drawing data

The underlying geometry has been specifically formatted to ensure referential integrity with the linked data. This requires that certain attribute values are present in the imported shape file data but it is relatively straightforward to adjust the attribute content after it has been imported.

It should be noted that the examples given may not be the only valid method for linking geometry to additional data. These demonstrations also assume some existing familiarity with GIS.