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MAPINFO/MITAB: User Attributes

For information on the parameters in this dialog that are specific to all formats, see About Writer Feature Types: User Attributes

User attributes for this format are defined below.

Name The name of the field to be written.
Type

Choose one of the following field types.

Index

The type of index to create for the column.

When specified, this results in the writer building an attribute index table for the columns that are indexed, thereby making queries in MapInfo faster.