[Qgis-user] Field comments

[Carlos Cerdán]

Thank you very much to everybody. So, I was trying to use "comments" in the
wrong way. And yes, ALIAS works fine. Of course, don't forget to save the
layer style.

Regards

Carlos Cerdan

2017-11-23 4:02 GMT-05:00 Stefan Blumentrath <Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no>:

> Hi Carlos,
>
> See: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/91
> for the metadata overhaul, in case that is of interest...
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of
> Matthias Kuhn
> Sent: torsdag 23. november 2017 08.58
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Field comments
>
> Hi Carlos,
>
> Comments are not saved in the project, they are just retrieved from
> databases.
>
> E.g. Postgres:
>
> COMMENT ON COLUMN my_table.my_column IS 'Employee ID number';
>
> It's a usability issue with QGIS 2.18 that the column is editable in the
> layer properties, it should be read only.
>
> Sidenote: That's not something that couldn't be changed in a future
> version, maybe it could be also discussed with the metadata team if there's
> something ready for this already.
>
> Regards
> Matthias
>
> On 11/22/2017 11:14 PM, Carlos Cerdán wrote:
> > Hi list:
> >
> > Does anyone know how to make comments permanent in the fields of the
> > attribute table? (see image on
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/uef2gs0g3qmp1g0/Fields.png?dl=0 )
> >
> > When I open the properties of the layer and go to the "fields" tab, I
> > can't make the comments recorded. I tried to put the layer in edit
> > mode and enter comments with quotes, but nothing.
> >
> > Maybe I'm using this feature the wrong way. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Carlos Cerdan
> >
> >
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