<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 Chris<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To paraphrase one of recent support responses:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You have a few options:<br class=""><ol class="">
<li class="">Try the Autofields plugin</li>
<li class="">Add the field as a virtual field based on an expression (such as $length)</li>
<li class="">Use the built-in functionality once you move to <a href="https://twitter.com/northroadgeo/status/944111613526687745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnorth-road.com%2F2017%2F12%2F24%2F24-days-of-qgis-3-0-features%2F" rel="noreferrer" class="">QGIS 3</a>
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<li class="">Or if you’re running on a database, you can get the DB to auto-update your field.</li></ol><div class="">Gavin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 31 Jan 2018, at 13:27, Chris Berens via qgis-za-user <<a href="mailto:qgis-za-user@lists.osgeo.org" class="">qgis-za-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hey thanks Admire,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We love your 'Bring it on!' attitude just when you are already in the thick of it ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally I think QGIS can jump through every hoop and more, but <u class="">you asked</u> so I'll share my current sukkel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I like it that we can fill a new object/record/field with a Default value in the Edit Widget properties dialogue out of Layer properties>Fields. Specifically I can call an environment variable such as @user_full_name - very useful to see who added that new object. But now I'd like to know who performed the most recent edit on that item, i.e. auto re-populate a field when an edit is saved...surely when it can perform this task (or perhaps it already does) then QGIS can be complete!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best wishes for the new release and thanks for all the help!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 January 2018 at 10:07, admire via qgis-za-user <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:qgis-za-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" class="">qgis-za-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br class="">
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QGIS3 is currently in feature freeze (no new features are being added, just fixing bugs and code revision). There is usually a lot of fanfare that goes with the release of a major version of QGIS.<br class="">
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We will obviously have a change-log that highlights all the nice features that have been added and we can track various blog articles that have been written by developers of certain features.<br class="">
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The best way to explore a new version is by looking at the shortcomings (sometimes it's just us users not exploring the full power of a program) of the current versions of QGIS.<br class="">
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* Do you have any niggling issues that you have been experiencing with the current version of QGIS that you so long wished could be better.<br class="">
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* Do you have anything that you have tried to do with the current version of QGIS and realized this task is impossible in QGIS.<br class="">
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* Do you have any workflows that are currently tedious in the current versions of QGIS.<br class="">
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If you have experienced any of the above issues please ask the list and we can use this to explore how QGIS3 is going to make our working lives better.<br class="">
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Regards<br class="">
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