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

[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 <a.neumann at carto.net> 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 <a.neumann at carto.net>
> 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 <harry.om2000 at gmail.com> 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
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