save as shapefile with column names > 10 chars fails "Creation of an attribute failed"

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Author Name: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)
Original Redmine Issue: 2413

Redmine category:vectors
Assignee: nobody -

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The error message should be adjusted to point the user to a solution (shortening the column names) or offer auto-truncation of column names

See related forum topic:
http://forum.qgis.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6114

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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See also #12211. Apparently OGR trims (or used to trim) the fieldnames by itself. What GDAL version is in use? Do the trimmed fieldnames produce duplicate names in use case that triggered this ticket?

ea9ae01 (SVN r12891) improves the error reporting a bit by including OGRs error message and reporting which column produces duplicate names when truncated.

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Author Name: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)

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Replying to [comment:1 jef]:
Yes, trimming produces duplicate column names. This seems to cause the failure.

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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fixed in ea9ae01 (SVN r12891).

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• resolution was changed from to fixed
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed