Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have two vector layers:  A first one
with all cadastral parcels of a region. This layer has several
attributes, it's only the geometry and 3 of the attributes I'm
intrested in.  My second layer is a selection of parcels from
the same region. This layer has 7 attributes. The first 3
attributes are identical to 3 attributes from the first layer
with all cadastral parcels. The 4 other attributes are filled in
afterwards.  How can I copy a parcel from the first layer to the
second one, only with the geometry and matching attributes in
the right field of the attribute table?  share|improve this
question add comment  2 Answers  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.  This is how you
could make it work:  Your original parcel layer should be
restructured so that the the 3 attributes you care about are
first in the attribute table.  If you th