[Qgis-user] What is intended behavior for attributes when copying features between layers?

[Thomas Larsen Wessel]

Sounds likely. If I figure out the details, I will respond here. Thanks :)

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM Emma Hain <emma at north-road.com> wrote:

> HI Thomas
>
> In my experience, the fields will be matched from the source to the
> destination table if the columns are the same format and name.
> I tried to find a link to the actual fix - but couldn't within the time
> allocated.
>
> Kind regards
> Em
>
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> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 at 22:16, Thomas Larsen Wessel via QGIS-User <
> qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> I found this, from 2012:
>>
>> "When copying features from one layer to another, attributes are copied
>> and pasted in the same order they appeared in the original attribute table.
>> Attribute/column names are not considered. "
>>
>> Source:
>> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/22901/how-to-copy-features-from-a-vector-layer-to-another-vector-layer-with-only-corre
>>
>> I could have sworn that I have previously copied features between layers,
>> and it matched by attribute names. However, today I just can't make it
>> work. Maybe it depends on the "provider"?
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