[Qgis-community-team] "Bug report" about documentation

[Ramon Andiñach]

Hi Junior,

Use this mailing list, or the github tracker.

I think these are fair comments, and are in PR #392 , except for 5., which I don't know how to do.

Comments added below.

-ramon.

On 25/11/2014, at 23:36 , Junior Delaz wrote:

> I'm reading QGis Testing doc to see if I can help improve it and I have some suggestions but I can't find where to push them. I remember I recently read such a question but don't know if somebody answered (and I can't find the question either). Is hub.qgis.org the appropriate repository or should I use QGIS Doc github (if one of them is used for such reports)? And if some of my remarks are bug report, others aren't really bug report nor feature request so I don't know where to put them...
> 
> Waiting for somebody showing me the path, let me suggest what can be done to the doc:
> 
> 1/ Field Calculator Bar
> If in QGIS 2.4 the field calc bar  was a little buggy, I think it's now stable and deserves to be mentioned in the doc, especially when presenting the attribute table edition. [0]

That's a feature that got missed. I've not said anything about it being a bit buggy in 2.4, because this becomes the 2.6 manual, and since we never did a 2.4 manual is not in there to correct.

> 2/ Query Builder [1]
> This chapter is about the query builder accessible within Layer's Properties > General. I think it should precise to the user that the features not corresponding to the result won't be displayed in the mapcanvas and attribute table while the request is not cleared.
> Maybe, it can be added that it won't be possible to edit such layer unless it is a DB table.

done.

> 3/ Save selected features as new layer
> "Save selected as" function no more exists. It is replaced by "Save As..."
> So in [0], the paragraph might be rewriten, according to this information.
> In [1], there is also a section about "saving selected features". I wonder if it's a right place as the query builder above doesn't really perform a selection. So once you validate Layer's Properties dialog, there is not really selected features you'll have to save as...

Updated [0]
Nup, definitely doesn't belong in [1]. Gone.

> 4/ Field Calculator [2] 
> The screenshot is not up to date (missing virtual field either in the screenshot and in the text)
> It is said "You will need to bring the vector layer into editing mode, before you can click on the field calculator icon to open the dialog". No more! the field calculator dialog is accessible everytime.

Alexandre, would you be so kind as to deal with the screenshot update? Maybe do it with the layer not in edit mode so the warning shows?

> 5/ Functions List [3]
> In Transifex, we do translate function help in field calculator (QGis Desktop). Would it be possible to use translated text so the functions listed here [3] can also be translated in other languages?
> 
> 6/ some buggy strings
> In [4], section Snapping Tolerance > point 1, it is writen "QIS" instead of "QGIS"
> In [5], 2nd paragraph, toolbars are available through "View" menu, not "Settings" one

Fixed

> I've found some "bugs" while writing this mail so sorry if all seems smuggled. There are some on which I can help but as I'm not really english speaker, I prefer reporting them and will see how I can help to fix them.
> 
> [0] http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/editing_geometry_attributes.html#working-with-the-attribute-table
> [1] http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/query_builder.html
> [2] http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/field_calculator.html
> [3] http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/expression.html#functions-list
> [4] http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/editing_geometry_attributes.html#setting-the-snapping-tolerance-and-search-radius
> [5] http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/editing_geometry_attributes.html#Digitizing-an-existing-layer
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