[Qgis-user] How to get rid of table name while joining table

[Andreas Neumann]

or - the even better way would be to allow the user to define a very 
short user-defined table name prefix (1-3 chars).

Andreas

On 20.01.2015 10:45, Anita Graser wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Harish <harry.om2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I do not want name of table to be included in attribute names when joining
>> tabular data to vector layers which are further truncated when saving the
>> layer permanently.
> Hi Harish,
> Layer names are prepended to avoid troube with columns having the same
> name (often the case with "id" or "name" columns).
> You can change the layer name to empty, then only an underscore _ will
> be prepended - this saves characters.
> An alternative is to open a feature request for adding an option to
> not prepend layer names.
> Best wishes,
> Anita
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