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I've written a scriptscript which produces a polygon shapefile of the extents of all the thousands of rasters in our library. I want to organise the FID so that the files with the largest extents are on the bottom so that an area of interest can be easily selected.

By organise FID - i mean that the layers should be drawn (in the shapefile) from the smallest extent to the largest extent as otherwise (like in layer ordering) the record of the dataset that has the highest FID will get selected over anything below it. This is not a simple (temporary within map/layer) sort but it has to be to permanently change the order in which the rows are written into the shapefile.

I've written a script which produces a polygon shapefile of the extents of all the thousands of rasters in our library. I want to organise the FID so that the files with the largest extents are on the bottom so that an area of interest can be easily selected.

By organise FID - i mean that the layers should be drawn (in the shapefile) from the smallest extent to the largest extent as otherwise (like in layer ordering) the record of the dataset that has the highest FID will get selected over anything below it. This is not a simple (temporary within map/layer) sort but it has to be to permanently change the order in which the rows are written into the shapefile.

I've written a script which produces a polygon shapefile of the extents of all the thousands of rasters in our library. I want to organise the FID so that the files with the largest extents are on the bottom so that an area of interest can be easily selected.

By organise FID - i mean that the layers should be drawn (in the shapefile) from the smallest extent to the largest extent as otherwise (like in layer ordering) the record of the dataset that has the highest FID will get selected over anything below it. This is not a simple (temporary within map/layer) sort but it has to be to permanently change the order in which the rows are written into the shapefile.

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reorder a Reordering polygon shape file (not sort)shapefile permanently?

I've written a script which produces a polygon shape fileshapefile of the extents of all the thousands of rasters in our library. I want to organise the FID so that the files with the largest extents are on the bottom so that an area of interest can be easily selected.

By organise FID - i mean that the layers should be drawn (in the shapefile) from the smallest extent to the largest extent as otherwise (like in layer ordering) the record of the dataset that has the highest FID will get selected over anything below it. This is not a simple (temporary within map/layer) sort but it has to be to permanently change the order in which the rows are written into the shape fileshapefile.

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reorder a polygon shape file (not sort)

I've written a script which produces a polygon shape file of the extents of all the thousands of rasters in our library. I want to organise the FID so that the files with the largest extents are on the bottom so that an area of interest can be easily selected.

By organise FID - i mean that the layers should be drawn (in the shapefile) from the smallest extent to the largest extent as otherwise (like in layer ordering) the record of the dataset that has the highest FID will get selected over anything below it. This is not a simple sort but it has to be to change the order in which the rows are written into the shape file.

Thanks,

Reordering polygon shapefile permanently?

I've written a script which produces a polygon shapefile of the extents of all the thousands of rasters in our library. I want to organise the FID so that the files with the largest extents are on the bottom so that an area of interest can be easily selected.

By organise FID - i mean that the layers should be drawn (in the shapefile) from the smallest extent to the largest extent as otherwise (like in layer ordering) the record of the dataset that has the highest FID will get selected over anything below it. This is not a simple (temporary within map/layer) sort but it has to be to permanently change the order in which the rows are written into the shapefile.

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reorder a polygon shape file (not sort)

I've written a script which produces a polygon shape file of the extents of all the thousands of rasters in our library. I want to organise the FID so that the files with the largest extents are on the bottom so that an area of interest can be easily selected.

By organise FID - i mean that the layers should be drawn (in the shapefile) from the smallest extent to the largest extent as otherwise (like in layer ordering) the record of the dataset that has the highest FID will get selected over anything below it. This is not a simple sort but it has to be to change the order in which the rows are written into the shape file.

Thanks,