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

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Andreas

It took me less time than it took me to write this email

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/9f704d6e92b922555bddb3a5a648edaac2aedf34

Matthias

On 06/16/2016 09:18 AM, Neumann, Andreas wrote:
> 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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