[Qgis-developer] Field mapper when pasting features

[Arnaud Morvan]

Hi Saber,

Yes, I will try to spent some time on this in Lyon next week.

Cheers

Arnaud Morvan
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Le 08/12/2016 10:36, Saber Razmjooei a écrit :
>
> Hi Arnaud,
>
> As suggested by others, a QEP for mapping fields would be great. Some 
> of the Processing tools (e.g. merging layers) can also benefit from that.
>
> Cheers
>
> Saber
>
> *From:*Qgis-developer [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] 
> *On Behalf Of *Denis Rouzaud
> *Sent:* 01 November 2016 08:02
> *To:* Arnaud Morvan; qgis-developer
> *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-developer] Field mapper when pasting features
>
> Hi Arnaud,
>
> I am really looking forward to seeing such feature implemented in 
> QGIS, thanks for bringing up the discussion.
>
> I would also recommend going for a QEP, as it is a largely foreseen 
> feature, and I suppose everyone has its own definition and use-case...
>
> From my point of view, we should go for a very generic field-mapping 
> mechanism which could be used in many places such as copy-paste. A way 
> of reading/saving configuration would be quite useful, like presets.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Denis
>
> On 10/27/2016 05:52 PM, Arnaud Morvan wrote:
>
>     Hello QGIS devs,
>
>     I want to add a field mapper dialog when pasting features to layers.
>
>     For now when pasting features with attributes names that do not
>     exists on the destination layer,
>     those attributes values are lost.
>
>     When clipboard fields and destination layer fields are not
>     strictly the sames,
>     In QGIS 3.0, I want to popup a new dialog with fields mapper
>     configurator.
>
>     Dialog UI could be similar to Refactor Fields Algorithm, showing a
>     list of destination fields :
>
>         source expression (expression widgets) => destination field
>
>     For example, I often use this workflow :
>         Open a shapefile or autocad file.
>         Use the refactor fields to get temporary layer with same
>     fields as destination.
>         Paste to postgis database layer.
>
>     I think having this dialog showing up when needed could really
>     ease data manipulation from one layer to another.
>     And I want to give the possibility to use expressions.
>
>     Any remarks, do you think I need to open to open a QEP for that ?
>
>     Regards
>
>
>
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