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While using QGIS, and having loaded a non spatial table (from a dbf or a Spatialite table), is it possible to add a new row to its table attributes?

Normally in a spatial layer you have to use "add features button", that obviouslly won't work in this case.

My idea was to use Qgis as somekind of frontend to a Spatialite database, with the ability to edit\add features in spatial tables as well in the non-spatial ones.

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With a DB Manager (unless your spatialite version is 3) you are able to execute any query including INSERT, so yes (plus there is spatialite-gui-plugin, but again spatilite 3 is not supported). But I prefer to use for this spatialite-gui in parralel with QGIS. Changes are synchronised nicely (at least so far for me).

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In 1.8 there should be an add button in the attribute table

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  • hmm... I don't have it. May be it is in trunk?
    – SS_Rebelious
    Commented Aug 29, 2012 at 23:25
  • Yeah maybe it is only in master
    – Nathan W
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 0:15
  • This was exactly what I needed. Guess I will have to wait until it become stable. Thanks
    – Alexandre Neto
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 9:12
  • The button is available in the stable version 1.8.0-3, installed with OSGeo4W.
    – Alexandre Neto
    Commented Aug 31, 2012 at 8:20
  • If someone don't want to open the attribute table each time he needs to add a new line, an alternative to this answer was given in this question
    – Alexandre Neto
    Commented Mar 27, 2013 at 14:51

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