[Qgis-user] creating one portable QGIS project

[Bernd Vogelgesang]

Oh wow, when did this function sneak into QGIS?
And many thanks for your detailed write-up!

Will test this soon to see which corner cases might not work properly.

Cheers,

Bernd

On 07.10.20 12:50, Ujaval Gandhi wrote:
> Hi Bernd,
>
> The best practice I recommend is to first use the 'Package Layers'
> algorithm to get all your layers in a geopackage. This saves the styles and
> data into the geopackage. Then load these into a fresh project  and then
> save the current project into the same geopackage. You can save processing
> models, styles etc in your project which also gets packaged. This way you
> end up with a single geopackage for your project. See the full workflow here
> <https://courses.spatialthoughts.com/automating-gis-workflows.html#packaging-your-work>
> .
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> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 4:18 PM Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:27 PM Bernd Vogelgesang
>> <bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>  From what I now read and tried, that solution seems to be far from what
>> Andre wants.
>>
>> What the Andre wants can be achieved by saving the filesystem-based
>> data in a directory under the project's directory and then setting the
>> project's option to store datasource paths as relative, if that
>> doesn't work it's a bug.
>> Then you can make a zip/tar.gz of the project and the underlying data
>> and send the zip.
>>
>>
>>> It seems, you can save it TO a gpkg and not AS a gpkg.
>>> So in case your complete project data is not already stored within a
>> gpkg, it won't collect and dump it as QConsolidate does. (correct?)
>> Correct.
>>
>>
>>> Maybe someone could shed a light about an best-practice-approach, how to
>> organize and store the data so this tool will give a smooth workflow.
>> (thinking e.g. of how to deal with big permanent datasets on networks
>> drives etc. )
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Bernd
>>>
>>> On 07.10.20 11:56, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>>
>>> For storing the .qgs file in a geopackage you can simply do "Project"
>>> --> "Save As" --> "Geopackage".
>>> I think you could even have multiple .qgs project files in a single
>>> Geopackage.
>>> Andreas
>>> On 2020-10-07 11:50, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/7/20 11:45 AM, Andre Ulrich wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear community,
>>>
>>> I want to export a QGIS project. In this project there are a few layers
>> (the path for each layer is set according to where the data is saved on my
>> computer). I can open the project on my computer and all the layers are
>> available.
>>> But when I send the project (and all the data for the layers -
>> everything is in one repository) to a colleague, he can not view the layers
>> (because the paths are still set according to my computer). One can fix
>> this in a few minutes by setting up the correct paths, but this is very
>> annoying. And once the paths are set correctly, all the symbology from the
>> layer properties is lost (or reset to some standard).
>>> Is there a way to save a QGIS project and all the related data as one
>> file (so that another person, who opens this file on its own computer, does
>> not have to set up all the paths and edit the symbology)?
>>>
>>> Try the QConsolidate plugin from Alex Bruy:
>>> https://github.com/alexbruy/qconsolidate
>>> available from his plugin repo (or github)
>>> https://plugins.bruy.me/qconsolidate.html
>>>
>>> It is also possible to export your data to an geopackage yourself, as
>> you can also save symbology for layers into a geopackage, and..., wel you
>> would need to sent 2 files then: the gpkg with you data+symbology and your
>> QGIS project file
>>> (was there a plugin to write your projectfile into a gpkg?)
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Richard Duivenvoorde
>>>
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