[Qgis-user] Re: Modifing the type of an attribute in a shp table

[Stanca Lazarescu]

Thank you all for your quick answers. I finally solved the problem by
installing the "table manager" plugin, which works fine so far.

All the best
Stanca

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Alister Hood <alister.hood at synergine.com>wrote:

> Hi Stanca,
> Also check out the "table manager" plugin - it works by creating a copy
> of the shape file.  I think QGIS does not support deleting attribute
> columns in a shapefile yet, as this feature was only recently added to
> gdal/ogr.
>
> Regards,
> Alister
>
>
> > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:30:19 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: "s.lazarescu" <stanca.lazarescu at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Qgis-user] Modifing the type of an attribute in a shp table
> > To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> > Message-ID: <1310326219054-6568405.post at n2.nabble.com>
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> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> >
> > I've encountered a small problem while building the table of a
> shapefile,
> > that contains around 90 attributes. It has to do with the type of the
> > attributes that cannot be modified once the table created. I realized
> that
> > for one of the attributes, the type of data I chose is not the correct
> one,
> > and so no data can be introduced.
> >
> > I'm looking for a solution which would allow me to modify the type of
> this
> > only attribute, without having to start all over again.
> >
> > Since the attribute is followed by only several other attributes, I
> had the
> > idea to delete all the attributes together with the "ill" one and to
> add
> > them again, this time giving it the correct type. But the "delete
> attribute"
> > button is not active .
> >
> >
> > I am thanking you for your advice.
> >
> > Stanca
>



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