[QGIS-Developer] Editable CSV files

[Bernhard Ströbl]

Hi Stefan,

although I do not know very much about this topic I wonder how this is 
solved with other file-based data sets, e.g. shape. Furthermore I would 
not limit csv to Excel. I normally use an editor for csv (and sometimes 
LibreOffice). The editor does not lock the file but offers to refresh it 
if it has been changed on disk. LO does lock the file, so no concurrent 
editing is possible.

Bernhard

Am 19.07.2017 um 08:23 schrieb Stefan Keller:
> Hii Andreas
>
> I think this is particularly a Windows issue. For Linux it could be
> implemented such that files are'nt write locked to other programs.
> Background is how to solve the problem of concurrent editing (a file).
> Just unlocking the file implies some problems of this type on how to
> "inform" the other client to refresh?
> A proper solution would be to implement a bidirectional communication
> between Excel and QGIS - similar to how GISconnector for Excel (and
> ArcGIS) did it.
> Unfortunately Excel needs to be programmed in VBA :-(
>
> :Stefan
>
> 2017-07-19 7:45 GMT+02:00 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a particular technical reason why csv/text files aren't editable in
>> QGIS? Or is this mainly for historical reasons and it could be implemented
>> as editable with reasonable effort?
>>
>> I know that there is a plugin called "Editable GeoCSV" - but shouldn't this
>> be supported by QGIS in general, without the need for a plugin?
>>
>> I'd be willing to financially support such an improvement in QGIS core,
>> should a developer be interested in working on it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>> _______________________________________________


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