#3704 closed enhancement (invalid)
Shapefile: please improve column management
| Reported by: | Stemby | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | major: does not work as expected | Milestone: | Version 1.7.0 |
| Component: | Documentation and Help | Version: | Trunk |
| Keywords: | shapefile column | Cc: | |
| Must Fix for Release: | No | Platform: | All |
| Platform Version: | Awaiting user input: | no |
Description
From the manual, section 3.4.7. "Attributes Tab":
"At the moment only columns from PostGIS layers can be removed and added."
That's a very big obstacle for students and simple users. Please, please concentrate your efforts to close that issue.
Thank you very much for your beautiful software.
Regards, Carlo
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
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| Status: | new → closed |
follow-up: 4 comment:3 by , 13 years ago
Ok, thank you.
I think your clear explication would be useful if inserted in the manual.
Regards, Carlo
comment:4 by , 13 years ago
| Component: | Data Provider → Documentation and Help |
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| Version: | 1.6.0 → Trunk |
Replying to Stemby:
Ok, thank you.
I think your clear explication would be useful if inserted in the manual.
Regards, Carlo
You are right: you can see that this trac also has a category for "documentation", so feel free to propose a patch for the manual with a paragraph explaining better this issue.
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Shapefiles columns can be added without any obstacle in many ways: trough the attributes table itself, trough the vector properties, trough the field calculator, etc.
Columns cannot be removed but this IS a OGR limitation: in the gdal/ogr trac you'll find a ticket and a patch that awaits to be committed. Until then QGIS (and any other software that uses gdal/ogr) can only use a workaround to delete shapefile columns. In QGIS this "workaround" is a plugin called TABLE MANAGER.