<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div><br></div><div><b><u>TL;DR;</u></b></div><div><br></div><div>Would it be ok to add a group key in the function help JSON files? Something like this:<br><br><table class="gmail-highlight gmail-tab-size gmail-js-file-line-container" style="border-spacing:0px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-LC1" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre">{</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L2" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC2" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> "name": "array_agg",</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L3" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC3" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> "type": "function",
<b> <font color="#0000ff">"group": "Aggregates",</font></b></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L4" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC4" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> "description": "Returns an array of aggregated values from a field or expression.",</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L5" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC5" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> "arguments": [</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L6" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC6" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> {"arg": "expression", "description": "sub expression of field to aggregate"},</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L7" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC7" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> {"arg": "group_by", "optional": true, "description": "optional expression to use to group aggregate calculations"},</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L8" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC8" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> {"arg": "filter", "optional": true, "description": "optional expression to use to filter features used to calculate aggregate"},</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L9" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC9" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> {"arg": "order_by", "optional": true, "description": "optional expression to use to order features used to calculate aggregate"}</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L10" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC10" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> ],</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L11" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC11" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> "examples": [</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L12" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC12" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> { "expression": "array_agg(\"name\",group_by:=\"state\")", "returns":"list of name values, grouped by state field"}</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L13" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC13" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre"> ]</td></tr><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td id="gmail-L14" class="gmail-blob-num gmail-js-line-number" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;width:50px;min-width:50px;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;line-height:20px;color:rgba(27,31,35,0.3);text-align:right;white-space:nowrap;vertical-align:top"></td><td id="gmail-LC14" class="gmail-blob-code gmail-blob-code-inner gmail-js-file-line" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px;line-height:20px;vertical-align:top;overflow:visible;font-family:SFMono-Regular,Consolas,"Liberation Mono",Menlo,monospace;font-size:12px;white-space:pre">}</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div><b><u>WHY</u></b></div><div><br></div><div>I am following Thomas Grattier effort to put all expression functions in a single HTML page:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://gist.githack.com/ThomasG77/0c6862fb2b6b3fc301ea994733688ea5/raw/99ecc5e6127e7238814da330a4d5d0b9fa2afe4e/qgis-3-12-expressions-single-page.html">https://gist.githack.com/ThomasG77/0c6862fb2b6b3fc301ea994733688ea5/raw/99ecc5e6127e7238814da330a4d5d0b9fa2afe4e/qgis-3-12-expressions-single-page.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is how he did it:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://gist.github.com/ThomasG77/0c6862fb2b6b3fc301ea994733688ea5">https://gist.github.com/ThomasG77/0c6862fb2b6b3fc301ea994733688ea5</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>This made me think that would be great to have a complete list like this on our documentation. But, unfortunately we can't use his approach which generates HTML</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px">My idea would be to use the JSON files in QGIS\QGIS to </span>semi-automagically<span style="color:rgb(36,41,46);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji";font-size:14px"> populate the function list with Sphinx format files. Which would be much easier to do, if there is a group key in each function.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues/5747">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues/5747</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Alexandre Neto</div></div>