[QGIS-trac] [Quantum GIS] #3857: Shapefile cannot be saved if joined table contains field names longer than 10 characters

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#3857: Shapefile cannot be saved if joined table contains field names longer than
10 characters
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   Reporter:  bnotter                           |              Owner:               
       Type:  bug                               |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0
  Component:  Vectors                           |            Version:  Trunk        
   Keywords:  table join, shapefile             |   Platform_version:  Ubuntu 10.10 
   Platform:  Linux                             |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                                 |  
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 A layer with another table joined to it using attribute values (as
 possible from QGIS 1.7) cannot be saved as shapefile if the joined table
 contains field names longer than 10 characters.

 In versions <= 1.6, when dynamic attribute join was not possible but
 joining attributes was done using fTools by permanently saving into a new
 dataset, field names longer than 10 characters would just be truncated.
 It would be nice if this behaviour was re-introduced for the dynamic table
 join

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3857>
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