[Qgis-user] Selecting polygons on attribute - Trying OGR

[Zoltan Szecsei]

On 2012/07/24 17:39, Micha Silver wrote:
> On 07/24/2012 06:34 PM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
>> On 2012/07/24 17:29, Andre Joost wrote:
>>> Am 24.07.2012 17:21, schrieb Micha Silver:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think the problem is the attribute column name begins with a 
>>>> digit. Look what
>>>> happens when I rename my column from above to 21Name:
>>>>
>>>
>>> In the Qgis query form, no error is produced, but all elements are 
>>> 'found' after renaming the field name to another beginning with 
>>> numbers.
>> Do you mean all 1.1m, or my subset of 545663 records that start with 
>> C016?
>> Can't find anywhere in QGis to change the fields name :-(
>
> Use the Table Manager plugin. (or just open the dbf in OpenOffice and 
> change *only* the name of the column)
Which is the Table Manager plugin? I'm just browsing QGIS plugins 
repository and cannot see anything like this.

I tried with OpenOffice 3.3 on both 64 & 32 bit Win 7, but the job 
disappears and task manager shows that it is just eating up memory (over 
600MB after 10 minutes, and climbing).

Thanks,
Z
>
>>
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Andre' Joost
>>>
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>
>
> -- 
> Micha Silver
> GIS Consultant, Arava Development Co.
> http://www.surfaces.co.il


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