Feature request #12893

Keep join field when using processing/qgis

Added by Nicolas Rochard over 9 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:Rejected
Priority:Normal
Assignee:-
Category:Processing/QGIS
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:wontfix
Easy fix?:No Copied to github as #:20983

Description

For try to reduce action to exported physical table.
I wish processing algorithms keep join field when they exist.

Example : Join layer with attribute from table file (posgresql, csv or dbf)
Processing > Dissolve in memory layer or temporary file lost all attribute from table and keep only geometric layer attribute.

History

#1 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback
  • Category set to Processing/Core

what tool you used to do the dissolve? In processing there are tools (saga,grass,ogr) that don't know anything about qgis joins: processing "simply" call them and they go pick the datasource. Maybe this would be possible with qgis tools.

#2 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

  • Category changed from Processing/Core to Processing/QGIS

#3 Updated by Nicolas Rochard over 9 years ago

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

what tool you used to do the dissolve? In processing there are tools (saga,grass,ogr) that don't know anything about qgis joins: processing "simply" call them and they go pick the datasource. Maybe this would be possible with qgis tools.

Yes I mean only about QGIS tools of course.
For Dissolve or Save Selected Features it's QGIS tool in Processing.

#4 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

  • Subject changed from Keep join field when using processing to Keep join field when using processing/qgis
  • Status changed from Feedback to Open

#5 Updated by Alexander Bruy over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Feedback

Not sure if we should change current situation. It may be quite confusing for users that some algs (e.g. QGIS) preserver joined/virtual fiels while other algs (based on 3rd party tools) don't.

I started discussion about this in mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2016-April/036018.html

#6 Updated by Alexander Bruy over 8 years ago

  • Resolution set to wontfix
  • Status changed from Feedback to Rejected

We decided to leave this as is, so all Processing algs behave consistent

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