[Qgis-developer] The first column in the attribute table

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Andreas,

I always thought that they are the feature ID. But not even that, often
they are "feature id - 1", but that's not guaranteed at all.

We could make it match the feature id. Or the current index in the table
like you propose.

Matthias

On 06/16/2016 08:56 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'd like to discuss an issue in the attribute table.
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> There is this very first column (not stored in the provider) which lists
> the features as they appear in the provider (by default, if not
> re-ordered by the user). What are these values? Some internal ID not
> present in the data? Or some internal ID from the qt table widget?
> 
> I am just wondering, because regarding this first column, QGIS behaves
> different from Spreadsheets.
> 
> When you reorder the table in QGIS, this very first column becomes "out
> of order" - spreadsheets always display 1 to xxx - nicely ordered -
> regardless of the sort order. Could QGIS be aligned to the behaviour of
> spreadsheets or is there a particular reason not do so? I think, from a
> users perspective, because these numbers are not present in the data,
> that it would be more useful if they always stay ordered from 1 to xxx
> or 0 to xxx, regardless of sorting.
> 
> Thank you for your feedback.
> 
> Andreas
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