[Qgis-user] problems deleting column of shapefile attribute table

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi,



On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 08:27 -0400, Tara Athan wrote:
> When I open the attribute table of the loaded shapefile, the delete 
> column is disabled (whether the edit mode is toggled or not). If I edit 
> the dbf file as a spreadsheet (using OpenOffice) and try to load the 
> layer, it doesn't recognize the dbf file.


deleting columns in. dbf is not (yet) supported by ogr. 

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2671

Nevertheless for shapefiles under qgis you can use the "table manager"
plugin to delete columns.


cheers

-- Giovanni --