[Qgis-user] urls / links as attribute values

[Nathan Woodrow]

Sure.  You can use layer Actions for that.   Here[1] is a example of opening
a photo using a layer Action, I'm pretty sure the same process can be done
with urls.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXbtat3AsBs

- Nathan

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde
<rdmailings at duif.net>wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> we have a webservice which returns a shapefile with attributes.
>
> one of the attribute values is a full url to some real time generated
> report for every feature in the shape (one report for every feature).
>
> I found it not so easy to select/copy/paste the link and open it in a
> browser (after loading the shape in qgis)... Not from the attribute
> window, nor via the getinfo tool (these are long complex url's).
>
> Ideally it would be nice to be able to just click on those url's and
> then let them open the report in a browser.
>
> Is this possible, or has anybody a clever idea how to to that?
>
> We can offcourse alway build a plugin for that :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
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