[Qgis-developer] Attribute Editor: Dual View

[Bernhard Ströbl]

Hi Matthias (and others),

I read your paper and I like the idea of the dual view because currently 
it is not possible to open the attribute editor from the table. On the 
other hand I am not convinced of the filter/selection proposal. IMHO one 
of the strengths when using GIS data is the unity of geometry and 
attribute data. Currently selecting a feature in the map also selects 
its attributes in the corresponding table and vice versa.
examples:
1) Select in map and investigate attributes: If a filter was applied the 
data might not be visible in the table without clicking "selection to 
filter".
2) filter logical in table and investigate these features in the map: 
You would need an additional "filter to selection" button to handle this.
3) field calculator: will it update the selected or the filtered datasets?
I think the whole concept will confuse average users. I would favour to 
keep the well established solution of features being selected no matter 
where (table or map) the selection was performed.

my 2 cents

Bernhard

Am 09.01.2013 12:43, schrieb Nathan Woodrow:
> Hey Matthias,
>
> Interesting idea.  Look forward to seeing the development of this feature.
>    Two questions before I ask any others.
>
>   - Does this change the behaviour of the identify tool?  What happens when
> I am in edit mode and click on a feature? Same as it currently is?  If we
> could add multi edit, multi select to the identify tool that would be neat.
>   - How would you handle custom UI forms? Just embed them in the split view.
>
> Overall I think it's a great idea and would greatly welcome a feature like
> this.
>
> - Nathan
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Matthias Kuhn<matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch>  wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> Denis, Andreas and I have been working on a proposal concerning the
>> attribute table and attribute editor.
>> We are convinced that it is a good idea to combine these two into a single
>> window and add/change some functionality.
>> There is a document [1] online which describes our ideas and contains some
>> mockups. We will start working on this soon and would like to encourage
>> everybody to read and comment on our ideas.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Matthias
>>
>> [1]: https://docs.google.com/**document/d/**1dL965ky4OoyeN9fEcqP9SWHVeQxTj
>> **1IFkBrEXTUBZuY/edit?pli=1#**heading=h.seeehmi30hq0<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dL965ky4OoyeN9fEcqP9SWHVeQxTj1IFkBrEXTUBZuY/edit?pli=1#heading=h.seeehmi30hq0>
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