<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I suggest a slightly different approach (which may not be all that different once the details are worked out?) <br></span></div><div><br></div><div>A project stores lots of info about more items than just a layer... but I often want to add a layer with the same style, actions, label, etc settings to several projects, or just to the current canvas without changing what is already in the canvas.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Does it seem useful to others to be able to store such info in a "layer setup" file rather than a QGIS project file, so layers can be opened with all such info attached & optionally read on opening? <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Regards,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> Brent Wood<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Paolo Cavallini <cavallini@faunalia.it><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 2, 2014 9:27 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Qgis-developer] What about a qgis project add function ?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Il 01/03/2014 22:07, Régis Haubourg ha scritto:<br><br>> I would love to call it "Add or embed from other project", and just add a<br>> checkbox choose embed or hard copy of the layers and groups. Existing dialog<br>> is already correct.<br>> I just ported Import Project plugin to 2.0 to satisfy that need. Just be<br>> aware that you need to give a new id to imported layers, to be able to<br>> import some layers n times. Code is quite simple, I would love to see that<br>> in core!<br><br>+1<br>Merci
Régis.<br>-- <br>Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu<br>QGIS & PostGIS courses: <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html" target="_blank">http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Qgis-developer mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org">Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</a><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>