[QGIS-Developer] Editable CSV files

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi all,

Thanks all for your feedback. The "Add delimited text" way of loading 
CSV data is a lot more powerful and more flexible than the OGR way. So I 
would really prefer to use the CSV this way and still be able to edit 
and save directly to the CSV.

Would this be possible as an enhancement?

I don't need concurrent/simultaneous editing with Spreadsheets. All I 
want is an editable CSV directly from QGIS, so that it could be at a 
later time, be opened in Spreadsheets again (not opened at the same time 
in QGIS as well).

Andreas

On 19.07.2017 16:23, Stefan Keller wrote:
> Nice hints, Bernhard and Nyall
> Thinking about, there's no really complicated technical reason why
> concurrent editing would not work.
> It's simply a matter in which mode the reader SW opens the file.
> * QGIS delimited text provider: locks.
> * QGIS OGR data provider: does not lock - but not ask to reload if
> file has changed.
> * LibreOffice Writer and Excel: lock
> * Notepad++: does not lock - and asks to reload if file has changed
> * Other text editors: depends...
>
> So, in fact e could slightly enhance the situation, if QGIS delimited
> text provider would not lock (and eventually ask to reload when file
> changed).
> The remaining problem is that we can't change the behaviour of
> LibreOffice Writer (Windows) nor Excel short term...
> Eventually someone could ask the LibreOffice Writer dev's for a solution?
>
> :Stefan
>
>
> 2017-07-19 8:48 GMT+02:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>:
>> On 19 July 2017 at 15:45, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>> It depends how they are loaded. If you load them using the delimited
>> text provider, then no, they aren't editable.
>>
>> BUT.....
>>
>> if you load them as a ogr layer, they will be! (Since GDAL supports this)
>>
>> So drag and drop them to QGIS, or add via the "add vector layer"
>> button and they'll be editable.
>>
>> Nyall
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