[Qgis-developer] Identify results form vs feature form

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Alexandre,

On 26.08.2014 11:25, Alexandre Neto wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I also agree that the feature form is a totally diferent funcionality,
> and accessing it do need some love.Therefore was planning on working
> on a plugin to add a button to the toolbar to directly open a selected
> feature's form. Additionally, if more than one feature is selected,
> the feature form would show all features equal values and empty the
> rest of the fields. Updating one of the fields will change it across
> all features, while keeping the field empty will preserve original
> values. A popup message should show up to warn the user that several
> features attributes will be updated.
>
> Do you think this would be useful?
>

Yes, but it should be in core. We have been thinking of this feature for
a while and I am hoping to find the time/funds to implement this.

There are two different cases to handle multiple selection IMO:

 * Multi Edit: what you describe, edit attributes of multiple features
at once
 * Attribute table (form view) with a filter applied to inspect the
selected elements only, but individually.

> I'm having problems with the current openFeatureForm () implementation
> tho... as I have referred in this mailing list before [0]
> <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Struggling-with-iface-openFeatureForm-tt5157574.html>.
> And I have now created a bug report [1]
> <https://hub.qgis.org/issues/11099> of it as this would be crucial for
> the plugin.
>
I will take care of that.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alexandre Neto
>

Matthias