<div dir="ltr"><div>HI Thomas</div><div><br></div><div>In my experience, the fields will be matched from the source to the destination table if the columns are the same format and name.</div>I tried to find a link to the actual fix - but couldn't within the time allocated. <br><div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Kind regards</div><div>Em</div><div><br></div><div style="margin-bottom:20px;font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#444444">Emma Hain — Product Manager/Senior GIS Analyst<br>
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and pasted in the same order they appeared in the original attribute 
table. Attribute/column names are not considered. "</div><div><br></div><div>Source: <a href="https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/22901/how-to-copy-features-from-a-vector-layer-to-another-vector-layer-with-only-corre" target="_blank">https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/22901/how-to-copy-features-from-a-vector-layer-to-another-vector-layer-with-only-corre</a></div><div><br></div><div>I could have sworn that I have previously copied features between layers, and it matched by attribute names. However, today I just can't make it work. Maybe it depends on the "provider"?</div></div>
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