[Qgis-user] Auto-fill id in attribute table when creating a feature

[Karl-Magnus Jönsson]

Hi!
Do you really need the ID field in the shapefile? If not you can drop it, hide it or ignore it and it works anyway. If you need a counter as primary key consider using another data provider suggested by Andreas.

Karl-Magnus Jönsson

Från: Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] För Neumann, Andreas
Skickat: den 31 maj 2016 14:04
Till: Simon Muirhead
Kopia: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Ämne: Re: [Qgis-user] Auto-fill id in attribute table when creating a feature


Hi Simon,

It is a bit data provider dependent. For many data providers (e.g. Postgis, SpatiaLite, Geopackage) you just don't fill in this value (or better set the edit widget to "read only") - provided that the database has a sequence defined for the primary key column. The values are filled in when saving the data. In 2.16 there is a new mode for PostgreSQL to immediately get the id value (experimental).

What data format are you using?

Greetings,

Andreas

On 2016-05-31 13:43, Simon Muirhead wrote:

Hi, I am new to QGIS, coming from ARCGiS. I was wondering when creating a new feature in a shape file, QGIS asks to fill in the id in the attribute table for every feature created. Is there anyway to have this done automatically like ARCGiS does?

Regards, Simon Muirhead
Written from my Nexus 6P so don't expect Tolstoy.

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