Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of table name while joining table

2015-01-23 Thread Matthias Kuhn
That was probably me at the same time... Looking into it right now, thank you for reporting On 23.01.2015 10:43, Andreas Neumann wrote: > Excellent - thanks for this modification! > > I noticed that there is a regression. The GUI to choose certain > columns from the joined table is always deactiv

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of table name while joining table

2015-01-23 Thread Andreas Neumann
Excellent - thanks for this modification! I noticed that there is a regression. The GUI to choose certain columns from the joined table is always deactivated. So no chance anymore to select certain fields. I don't know when this regression was introduced. Tested with PostgreSQL tables. I op

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of table name while joining table

2015-01-22 Thread Matthias Kuhn
I just merged this functionality. When you create a join, you may specify a prefix. This can be an empty string. By default it is unspecified and "layername_" is used, so it is exactly like before. Best, Matthias On 20.01.2015 11:25, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > I think leaving it up to the user is th

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of table name while joining table

2015-01-20 Thread Nathan Woodrow
I think leaving it up to the user is the best option here. Nathan On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 8:17 pm Andreas Neumann 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,

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of table name while joining table

2015-01-20 Thread Andreas Neumann
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

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of table name while joining table

2015-01-20 Thread Harish
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 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). >

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of table name while joining table

2015-01-20 Thread Andreas Neumann
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 wrote: I do not want name of table to be included in attribute names when joining ta

Re: [Qgis-user] How to get rid of table name while joining table

2015-01-20 Thread Anita Graser
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Harish 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

[Qgis-user] How to get rid of table name while joining table

2015-01-20 Thread Harish
Dear list, 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. May kindly be indicated if the issue has already been discussed previously. Thanks Regards -- *H K Solanki*