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

[Harish]

Thanks for kind replies. A feature request for adding an option to
not prepend layer names will be better.
Regards

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
wrote:

> 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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