[Qgis-developer] Embedding of layers and legend groups from other projects

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi Marco,
thanks for this feature.

This is huge!

It works regardless the type of datasource (vector or raster, shapes,
postgis, spatialite, etc.)?

cheers

-- Giovanni --



On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 18:48 +0200, Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> Hi devs
> 
> Recently, I implemented support for embedding layers and legend groups from 
> other project files. Like this, it is no longer necessary to repeat legend 
> arrangements. Just embed groups and/or layers from other project files as 
> references (Layer->embed layers and groups, then select a project file and mark 
> the entities to embed). The reference can be absolute / relative depending on 
> the project setting.
> 
> The code is contained in my github clone (git at github.com:mhugent/Quantum-
> GIS.git). I'm planning to do some testing before pushing to the main repo. If 
> you have some feedback, let me know.
> 
> One issue that I'm already aware of is the problem to embed several groups 
> with the same name. Solution might be to generate a unique group id (similarly 
> to the layer id), but this does not work for referencing old project files.
> 
> Regards,
> Marco
>