Editing Shapefile Attributes in QGIS – Methods

Question

How might I go about exporting a polygon shapefile (e.g. CSV) so that attributes (not geometry) are editable by others, and importing it with the changed attributes (of which there are several columns worth)?

I tried the mmqgis plugin (Transfer > Attributes Export/Join to/from CSV file), but
1) it seems to only be able to import one attribute at a time and
2) creates a separate temp.shp without geometry and
3) does not attach the new attributes to the existing polygon shapefile.

Is there something I'm doing wrong here, or do you have a better solution for my task at hand?

Thanks!

Answer 1

the attributes of a shapefile are stored in an extra dbase-file. for example: mypolygons.shp contains geometries, mypolygons.dbf contains attributes. via an id the attributes are connected to the polygons. so just simple load your dbf file into capable software (e.g libreoffice) , edit attributes and your done