[Qgis-user] Table Join in QGIS Master

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Filipe

Yes, it is intended behaviour to better distinguish fields with the same 
names. Maybe it would be better to add the table name last, then it 
would get trimmed away?

Regards,
Marco

On 23.11.2012 09:49, Filipe Dias wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I tried to join a .csv and .dbf table (table1 with FieldA and FieldB) 
> with a shapefile with Field A and Field B. The joined fields in the 
> resulting shapefile were named table1FieldA and table2FieldB. In 
> previous versions QGIS simply added FieldA and FieldB. Is this the new 
> and intended behaviour?
>
> If yes, I dont think its a good idea, because if the table field''s 
> names are relatively long, they will be trimmed in the final 
> shapefiles eg. table1Fie.
>
> QGIS Master (today's version) and Linux Ubuntu 12.04
>
> Tks
> Best regards
>
>
>
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