[Qgis-developer] How should the dissolve tool in Processing work?

[Victor Olaya]

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> Do you mean drop fields (as is now but in debate) or keep first value (as it
> used to be before)?
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Make the algorithm behave like the one from the mentioned plugin


> How would you enter the value? I could imagine a LineEdit where you input
> e.g. a comma-separated list of fields to keep and another one where you
> input a comma-separated list of the stats to apply? To apply several stats
> on one field you would need multiple entries in LineEdit1?
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At first, on a line edit, with a string like
"[field_to_keep],[stat_to_apply], [field_to_keep],[stat_to_apply,
[field_to_keep],[stat_to_apply]..."

Not very intuitive if it's not documented, but will do until the UI is ready