[Qgis-developer] Saving expressions

[Nathan Woodrow]

Let me see what I can come up with after my exams are finished in a
week.

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From: Paolo Cavallini
Sent: 19/10/2012 4:29 PM
To: Andreas Neumann
Cc: Nathan Woodrow; qgis-developer
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Saving expressions
Il 19/10/2012 08:21, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
>
> What do you expect from the loading? Automatic application to the
> field calculator (sounds scary to me), or just the ability to choose
> from past expressions?
I meant the latter.
>
> To me the expressions do not have a natural 1:1 match to a layer like
> the .prj or the .qml file has.
Yes, but a list of the expressions used for that table would be useful
(and probably very easy to do).
>
> But I can see value in a central storage of expressions used in the
> past, regardless of layer and QGIS project. But it would just be used
> as a way to load and save expressions as templates to start from and
> not an automatic application to some calculation or the label engines.
> These settings should be better stored in the project itself rather
> than in a separate file.
This is not my original idea, but I agree it is an interesting
alternative, with its advantages.
Kind of a log of the expressions used per user is a slight variance of this.
All the best, and thanks.

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