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

[Neumann, Andreas]

Hi Matthias, 

Column header numbers? Aren't we discussing row header numbers? 

Andreas 

On 2016-06-16 09:25, Matthias Kuhn wrote:

> 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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