[Qgis-developer] Run Feature Action Behaviour

[haubourg]

Thanks for this guys, 
I may be wrong in my analyse, please tell me. 

A bit of context. We are trying to use Qgis for two usages:
 1- classical Desktop GIS for trained users: no worries, actual beahaviour
is way beyond Mapinfo or Arcmap.
 2- simplified viewer for beginners and our decision makers, that obviously
don't have time to get trained (I can't change it).   This is more often
served by a web GIS, but we don't have one for now, so we use QGIS and try
to stay simple with one tool (two in fact, we did not get rid of Mapinfo
yet). 

Native run action of identify tool is not immediatly seen by users. Our
users did learn with Mapinfo.. their habits are quite long to change, and
they love that yellow thunder icon (ArcMap uses it also..).. (I try to
change it ;-))

- Ok for retrocompatibility, it's too late and I wasn't following dev list
at that time. I understand that. But for future changes, we should at least
warn users and data adminstrators of such changes, or keep compatibility if
possible.  Upgreading from 1.7 to 1.8 in a company with a lots of projects
and actions will be more painfull since we have to upgrade all projects of
all users, or explain them how to do it. (80 frequent users .. ). 


Giuseppe Sucameli wrote
> 
> I really do not understand how to run an action (which is defined on
> a layer) on more/all the layers...
> 
  It's quite simple, if there is only one action, under mouse clic, hotlink
directly run action, if more,opens a lisbox exactly like in Mapinfo. W

Identify tool requires user to expand "actions" in Identify window. This is
not understood by newcomers.  move windows if it floats on data, which
triggers a redraw



Giuseppe Sucameli wrote
> 
> 
> I still think the Hotlink plugin is quite similar to the identify tool:
> 
> 1. Identify tool allows you to see full informations about the
> features, i.e. all the attributes values and not the first one only
> which usually is a non-significant number,
> 2. it open a non-modal window that you can move outside the
> canvas and then click on the map more times without any needs
> to close it,
> 3. you can choose the action to run on only one feature.
> 
> It's not clear to me why don't use the identify tool.
> Have I missing something?
> 
Seeing attributes is quite reserved to GIS men. For decision makers, we use
QGIS as a frontend to navigate between Geographic context (QGIS) and more
specialised web pages describing objects dedicated to users. For example: 
http://adour-garonne.eaufrance.fr/massedeau/FRFR217
http://adour-garonne.eaufrance.fr/massedeau/FRFR217   or 
http://adour-garonne.eaufrance.fr/station/05111620
http://adour-garonne.eaufrance.fr/station/05111620 . I want for them the
more simple tool possible. If not, they don't use it... 

I would say that identify tool could be satisfying if we  find a more direct
way to allow user to run an action.* Why not suppress action subfolder and
display actions on top of attribute list? *

 Picking a specific tool is not completly satisfying, exploring subfolder of
identify window isn't either.. The ultimate goal is what google does: only
one default cursor, actions directly on objects.. But we are in descktop
world, so I'm trying to find a compromise with a plugin, using a well known
icon, and letting user click directly on a feature. 



 



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