[Qgis-user] Saving layers

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Richard,
That's useful to know, however I was planning on using it with Oracle
layers so it wouldn't work for me. Basically what we do with ArcMap (.lyr)
and MapInfo (.tab) is create links to data which we share on a network
drive so that our users can easily access our data pre-styled. It works
quite well so if we go toward QGIS we'd want to use it there too.

Cheers,
Jonathan

On 17 October 2013 17:47, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:

> On 17-10-13 15:36, Jonathan Moules wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >   I'm wondering if QGIS can save links to layers as stand alone files,
> > similar to how ArcMap does it.
> > I know I can save the style, but I want to save everything about the
> > layer including data location etc in a file which I can then share with
> > others. The style only saves the style.
> >
> > I can't seem to find such a function - is there one?
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> one 'hidden' feature is that if you save a style as a qml file next to
> your data (shape file), and name it exactly the same as your shape,
> loading the shp in qgis will load the style with it.
>
> BUT: only working with filebased data, and NOT saving your extent I think.
>
> You can save a project, and use it as a template. And if I recall
> correct there was some way to use one project as a subprobject for
> another one, but I cannot find it anymore...
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
>

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