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@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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