<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="">Dear QGIS users,</p><p class="">I have been using actions in QGIS for years and I find them very
useful and much easier to create than plugins. As a reminder, they can
have 4 different scopes, which are 'Field', 'Feature', 'Layer' and
'Canvas'.</p><p class="">However, there is one thing I don't understand: when choosing
'Canvas', it is always necessary to click on an layer element after
choosing the action to be used in the attributes toolbar (with the
action button - the little wheel). Why is this? Wouldn't it be easier to
immediately trigger an action by clicking on its name in the toolbar?<br class="">
In particular, I have defined a Python action that fetches a file
containing data to be imported into a database, with no specific link to
a particular entity.</p><p class="">So, have I misunderstood the use of the action? Am I missing something?</p><p class="">
Or maybe better, would it be possible to have actions not related to any layer ?</p><div class="">Didier</div></body></html>