Duplicate column names

[Antti-L]

The VEDA Online documentation says the following:

First time you import a new model folder, you may need resolve three types of issues that were working OK with old veda:

  ◦ Duplicate column names
    ● Can append redundant info like ~ANNUAL or ~<baseyear> to differentiate columns. For example, if an FI_T table has two columns called “Input”, then one of them can be named “Input~2010” (if 2010 is the base year).

I just happened to test this, and it seems that VEDA2.0 v3.0 no longer has a problem with Duplicate column names in FI_T tables.  No error is being issued, and the rightmost non-empty value over the duplicate columns in each row seems to survive, as it was in VEDA-FE. Is this correct, and does this mean that the old behaviour of VEDA-FE (with respect to duplicate columns) has been restored?  I am by no means advocating the use of duplicate columns, but it would be good to know whether it is now supposed to work or not.

[AKanudia]

Thanks for pointing this out. We had to add support for duplicate column headers in FI_T for backward compatibilty. This part of the doc was written a bit before that.. has been updated.