[Qgis-developer] Form widgets: decouple widget type from "hidden" or not

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi

If I understand correctly, you want to show a different form in QGIS 
desktop and the QGIS web client.
I'm not familiar with the code that generates the forms for the web 
client, but reading your question, I guess that it generates it's form 
based on the definition made in the vector layer properties / field 
tab. As far as I remember, there was no support for ui files or drag 
and drop designed forms in the web client (unless this changed 
meanwhile), so if you generate a drag and drop form and skip the field 
you mentioned, does this not lead to the desired result?

There are a couple of other discussions or ideas related to this. One 
being brought up by Jürgen IIRC, which involved being able to define 
multiple form layouts for a layer which could then be used based on the 
context, in which a form is being shown (e.g. feature identify, 
attribute table => form view, embedded form and this list could be 
expanded with web services, involved user etc.)
The other discussion I remember was by Denis or Nathan (not sure) and 
it's more about the organization of the fields tab in the layer 
properties. My main concern about your idea is that it will add yet 
another field to an already overly crowded table which defines the 
representation of the fields. Instead of a table, there should be group 
boxes which will make it a lot easier to manage the fields.

Under the hood, I've been writing a new API for the widgets which will 
make maintenance for all the widgets a lot easier and providing custom 
widgets should be straightforward (also from python). I'll integrate 
this API into 2.1 but will probably not yet port the old widgets to the 
new API but the relations widget will be based on the new API.
Maybe webclient widgets could be ported to the same new API? I didn't 
think about it yet, but it could be worth a thought. As mentioned, I 
don't know the webclient code, so I'm not sure if this is feasible.

Matthias

On Die 04 Jun 2013 17:14:46 CEST, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have projects where I want to define a widget type (for QGIS web
> client projects) but want to hide the field in QGIS desktop. I know - it
> sounds strange, but it is a requirement.
>
> I therefore want to discuss whether we could have a separate column next
> to the WMS and WFS column, labeled "Desktop" with a checkbox that
> defines if the field is visible in QGIS desktop or not.
>
> Then we could still define a widget type (for QGIS web client) but hide
> the field in QGIS desktop. We could then remove the "Hidden" widget
> type, which isn't a widget anyway.
>
> This is kind of similar to the "editable" status we introduced a couple
> of weeks/months ago - where we initially had the separate "immutable"
> widget type where only line input widgets were supported.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
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