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

[Andreas Neumann]

Then you can't distinguish a joined column from a normal column. And it 
would open up naming conflicts - which is the reason why the layer name 
prefix was introduced. Bad, in my opinion.

Andreas

On 20.01.2015 11:01, Harish wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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