Hi Matthias, If there are no negative side effects - I'd like to see the same behaviour like in spreadsheets - an always ascending list, starting from 1 - regardless of the order of the rows.
Would this be a lot of work to change this? Andreas On 2016-06-16 09:06, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > I always thought that they are the feature ID. But not even that, often > they are "feature id - 1", but that's not guaranteed at all. > > We could make it match the feature id. Or the current index in the table > like you propose. > > Matthias > > On 06/16/2016 08:56 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to discuss an issue in the attribute table. >> >> There is this very first column (not stored in the provider) which lists >> the features as they appear in the provider (by default, if not >> re-ordered by the user). What are these values? Some internal ID not >> present in the data? Or some internal ID from the qt table widget? >> >> I am just wondering, because regarding this first column, QGIS behaves >> different from Spreadsheets. >> >> When you reorder the table in QGIS, this very first column becomes "out >> of order" - spreadsheets always display 1 to xxx - nicely ordered - >> regardless of the sort order. Could QGIS be aligned to the behaviour of >> spreadsheets or is there a particular reason not do so? I think, from a >> users perspective, because these numbers are not present in the data, >> that it would be more useful if they always stay ordered from 1 to xxx >> or 0 to xxx, regardless of sorting. >> >> Thank you for your feedback. >> >> Andreas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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