[Qgis-developer] Auto increment field for shapefiles?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 17/05/2014 00:38, mmekuria ha scritto:
> I am not sure what you mean, Paulo. But there is already the Feature Id
> (Object Id in ArcGIS) in QgsFeature. Do you mean having that a mandatory
> field that gets populated every time a feature is created within a
> shapefile?

Almost: I mean let the user define a field as SERIAL
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-numeric.html
also for non-database data types (especially shp).
It does not seem too difficult, now that we have a record number function in the
expressions.
All the best.

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