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

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi Matthias, 

If there are no negative side effects - I'd like to see the same
behaviour like in spreadsheets - an always ascending list, starting from
1 - regardless of the order of the rows. 

Would this be a lot of work to change this? 

Andreas 

On 2016-06-16 09:06, Matthias Kuhn wrote:

> 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,
>> 
>> I'd like to discuss an issue in the attribute table.
>> 
>> 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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