topic Need Help Joining Categories 10.1 in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/need-help-joining-categories-10-1/m-p/82588#M4766 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a point file with hundreds of businesses by type (e.g. restaurants, gas stations, hospitals).&nbsp; I have split this data into categories to view on my map.&nbsp; I would like join only selected categories (or one at a time) to determine its distance from an address point.&nbsp; I know how to join shapefiles to shapefiles but I have no idea how to join just 1 category out of the shapefile.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:37:48 GMT DavidSilverberg 2014-08-17T16:37:48Z Need Help Joining Categories 10.1 https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/need-help-joining-categories-10-1/m-p/82588#M4766 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a point file with hundreds of businesses by type (e.g. restaurants, gas stations, hospitals).&nbsp; I have split this data into categories to view on my map.&nbsp; I would like join only selected categories (or one at a time) to determine its distance from an address point.&nbsp; I know how to join shapefiles to shapefiles but I have no idea how to join just 1 category out of the shapefile.</P><P style="min-height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:37:48 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/need-help-joining-categories-10-1/m-p/82588#M4766 DavidSilverberg 2014-08-17T16:37:48Z Re: Need Help Joining Categories 10.1 https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/need-help-joining-categories-10-1/m-p/82589#M4767 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Sounds like you need to use a <A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#//00s50000002z000000">Definition Query</A> to filter your data. This will allow you to display only selected categories and then join data or do other analysis on a subset of your entire shapefile.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 18 Aug 2014 02:47:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/need-help-joining-categories-10-1/m-p/82589#M4767 OwenEarley 2014-08-18T02:47:07Z