<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Aug 2019, at 23:41, Nyall Dawson <<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com" class="">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 01:37, Tim Sutton <<a href="mailto:tim@kartoza.com" class="">tim@kartoza.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Ok but is there a way to access the equivalent of @atlas_feature_id in my style rules when running the report so I can hide vegetation points that don’t match the plant name I am iterating over?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Yes - just use it, exactly like you do with atlases :)<br class=""><br class="">Because there's currently no report preview mode, you can't see the<br class="">effects of this on the canvas or in the layout designer. But it WILL<br class="">work correctly at export time.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Hmm I had been trying this the last couple of days with no luck……but now I got it to work! Yay! I’m sure not enough people tell you this, but the report stuff is awesome! Thanks!</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>We don’t have anything equivalent of the layout atlas’s filter features right? Would be nice to be able to filter report group records by some criteria.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Yup I am aware of the provider part but shouldn’t one still be able to interpolate QGIS expressions (or at least variables) into the filter expression? I am thinking the equivalent here of doing<br class=""><br class="">Select * from layer_foo where name=“@some_name”<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">That would work in some cases, but variables can also be QGIS specific<br class="">values like geometry objects. So then every provider would need logic<br class="">to convert these to something which works for that backend. I suspect<br class="">this is a dangerous path to go down, since we'd constantly be trying<br class="">to close corner cases where a particular filter isn't working<br class="">correctly for a particular backend.<br class=""><br class="">I think I'd prefer a mode where you could choose from either filtering<br class="">using the backend syntax OR qgis expressions. Given that we now have<br class="">good support for "compiling" QGIS expressions back to the closest<br class="">possible provider native equivalent, and that all providers handle<br class="">this, in most cases there should be very minimal loss of performance.<br class="">And the benefit would be that ALL QGIS expressions would be guaranteed<br class="">to work correctly regardless of the provider backend…</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks for the feedback above - I will go with the cheating approach of using rule based renderers for filtering data for now. But nice to know you have a plan in mind for some crowdfunding or grant work in the future :-P</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tim</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Nyall<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Which gets replaced with the actual name each time a read request is made.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thanks!<br class=""><br class="">Regards<br class=""><br class="">Tim<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">See <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/24932" class="">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/24932</a><br class=""><br class="">Nyall<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Thanks!<br class=""><br class="">Regards<br class=""><br class="">Tim<br class="">—<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class=""><br class="">Co-founder: Kartoza<br class="">Ex Project chair: <a href="http://QGIS.org" class="">QGIS.org</a><br class=""><br class="">Visit <a href="http://kartoza.com" class="">http://kartoza.com</a> to find out about open source:<br class=""><br class="">Desktop GIS programming services<br class="">Geospatial web development<br class="">GIS Training<br class="">Consulting Services<br class=""><br class="">Skype: timlinux<br class="">IRC: timlinux on #qgis at <a href="http://freenode.net" class="">freenode.net</a><br class=""><br class="">I'd love to connect. Here's my calendar link to make finding time easy.<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">QGIS-Developer mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org" class="">QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer<br class="">Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">—<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class=""><br class="">Co-founder: Kartoza<br class="">Ex Project chair: QGIS.org<br class=""><br class="">Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source:<br class=""><br class="">Desktop GIS programming services<br class="">Geospatial web development<br class="">GIS Training<br class="">Consulting Services<br class=""><br class="">Skype: timlinux<br class="">IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net<br class=""><br class="">I'd love to connect. 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