I think leaving it up to the user is the best option here. Nathan
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 8:17 pm Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > Then you can't distinguish a joined column from a normal column. And it > would open up naming conflicts - which is the reason why the layer name > prefix was introduced. Bad, in my opinion. > > > Andreas > > > On 20.01.2015 11:01, Harish wrote: > > Thanks for kind replies. A feature request for adding an option to > not prepend layer names will be better. > Regards > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> or - the even better way would be to allow the user to define a very >> short user-defined table name prefix (1-3 chars). >> >> Andreas >> >> >> On 20.01.2015 10:45, Anita Graser wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Harish <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I do not want name of table to be included in attribute names when >>>> joining >>>> tabular data to vector layers which are further truncated when saving >>>> the >>>> layer permanently. >>>> >>> Hi Harish, >>> Layer names are prepended to avoid troube with columns having the same >>> name (often the case with "id" or "name" columns). >>> You can change the layer name to empty, then only an underscore _ will >>> be prepended - this saves characters. >>> An alternative is to open a feature request for adding an option to >>> not prepend layer names. >>> Best wishes, >>> Anita >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qgis-user mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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