Join does not consolidate the new table

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Author Name: alobo - (alobo -)
Original Redmine Issue: 4528

Redmine category:vectors

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After joining a dbf table to the attribute table of a vector layer and
leaving "Cache join layer in virtual memory" not selected, the attribute
table is correct and the layer automatically enters in editing mode.
Nevertheless, toggling editing off does not save the layer with its new table:
if the layer is removed from the TOC ans loaded again, the newly joined fields
are gone.
Currently, the only way of consolidating the new attribute table is using Save As...

Agus

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Author Name: Marco Hugentobler (@mhugent)

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The join function does not write joined tables to the original tables intentionally.
However, it should probably notify the user that edits in the joined fields will be lost (or try to redirect the edits to the table where the field comes from)

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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I believe that after Marco explanation it should be possible to change subject and description of this ticket, eventually making it a features request to have the warning added. Please leave feedback.

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback
• priority_id was changed from 6 to Normal

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.7.2 to Version 1.7.3

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.7.3 to Version 1.7.4

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• tracker_id was changed from 1 to 2

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.7.4 to Version 2.0.0

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Author Name: Pirmin Kalberer (Pirmin Kalberer)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 2.0.0 to Future Release - Nice to have

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Author Name: Denis Rouzaud (@3nids)

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• status_id was changed from Feedback to Closed

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Author Name: Denis Rouzaud (@3nids)

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duplicate #15875