[QGIS-Developer] Disable/commenting provider filter?

[Alexandre Neto]

As an workaround, can't you just create a new style and remove the filter?
Then go back to the default style?

Obviously a checkbox would be much more user friendly.

Alexandre Neto

A terça, 11/05/2021, 09:52, Andreas Neumann <andreas at qgis.org> escreveu:

> Hi Richard,
>
> Yes - I think this would be very useful. I would prefer the checkbox for
> enabling/disabling without losing the filter string.
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
> On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 16:41, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> When I add a filter to a layer, I often want to temporarily disable that
>> filter (just to see what the full view is).
>>
>> Working a lot with sql scripts recently, in which you comment out (a
>> part) of a sql query by putting '--' in front of it, I tried that also
>> in the Query builder, and though it looks like I'm commenting out my
>> query (the query is greyed-out), it's not working, I get a parsing
>> error.
>>
>> So usability question:
>> - would other people be interested in temporarily disabling the layer
>> filter query, or am I the only one :-)
>>
>> If yes:
>>
>> - should it be implemented by 'commenting' out part of the query?
>> - or should there be some 'temporarily disable' checkbox in the query
>> builder)
>> - should it be a context menu (either the layer, or the little filter
>> overlay icon in the layermanager)
>>
>> Tech question:
>> - any forseeing issues with such thing?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Duivenvoorde
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