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I've got a shapefile lines with ID attribute and .dbf with values which corresponds do ID. Every value in dbf is in different record.

I want to style lines and display label using these values from dbf. I tried to use Join tool in layer's properties in QGIS but it joined only a few of values.

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I shown you just a simplified example...

My "real life" problem is a little bit different. I've got a shapefile with geometry of roads. Every link of the roads has a unique ID attribute. On the other hand I've got a dbf file with information about road restriction.

Structure of dbf is: road_linkID - type - value

road_link1 - max_height - 2
road_link1 - speed limit - 50
road_link1 - max_weight - 3,5
road_link2 - speedlimit - 60
road_link3 - max_weight - 3,5
road_link3 - speedlimit - 60
road_link3 - max_height - 4

When I'm using layer\properties\join to my road.shp adds one column with only one parameter:

road_link1 - max_height - 2
road_link2 - speedlimit - 60
road_link3 - max_weight - 3,5
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    It sounds like you already have the solution but something went wrong. Maybe you can provide the join / link command you used if you cant find the error yourself. If it only joined / linked a few values, you may have given the wrong data for the attributes to join or have some ghostsigns (e.g. spaces) that prevent a proper join or link. – Papierwolf Feb 22 '16 at 11:48
  • Is the .dbf file supposed to belong to the .shp file? – Joseph Feb 22 '16 at 12:23
  • it's just a simplified example.... – pawaelus Feb 22 '16 at 12:37
  • Could you perhaps share your data so that others could test it? From the example you gave, your shapefile only contains 3 attributes whereas your .dbf contains more (rows = features; columns = attributes). I think maybe you want to add more columns? – Joseph Feb 22 '16 at 14:32
  • Here is my data: wikisend.com/download/158200/test.7z – pawaelus Feb 22 '16 at 20:31
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Is it possible to modify your .dbf file ? In your case with your simple data "join" is one to one relationship. In my opinion it should looks like this:

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And layer with lines:

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Now you can make join with: Layer>Properties:

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The result looks like this:

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  • I think it would be enough. I can't modify my dbf by hand because it's data of whole country so, it would took years to change everything. Do you know which tools I could use to modify? – pawaelus Mar 1 '16 at 13:12
  • Try to open and edit it with an excel app. – Artec Mar 1 '16 at 15:56

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