[Qgis-user] Editing Data in Attribute Table/How Do I Install

[Leyan]

Hi Nathan,

I know the field calculator and used it quite extensively. The functions 
are powerful but it can be quite cumbersome to use (I hope the future 
saved expressions can help for this, having to copy and paste from an 
external text editor is a pain). I would like to be able to:
* sort according to several columns
* auto-increment a field just by dragging the mouse like in a spreadsheet
* for a numeric field, see quickly the basic statistics of the selected 
features (average, sum, maybe also min and max). Currently, I would have 
to go to Vector->Analysis->Basic statistics and select the field. I 
prefer to copy and paste the selected features to either LibreOffice or 
Excel and select the column I want to see the sum, but I don't know what 
to say each to people when I show them how to use QGIS (we work on 
networks so we are often interested in the length of lines in a selected 
area for example).
* select several cells and copy/paste them
* hide columns temporarily
* having formulas that stay as formulas and are updated when the source 
data is updated, be it other fields, geometry, etc. ( I think I saw 
something about this but I do not know the current status)

Anyway, just a few ideas I had in mind, probably more would come later. 
I wanted to implement the basic statistics of selection myself, but am I 
not sure of where to put this, there is no status bar.

Leyan

On 10/21/2012 11:02 AM, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
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> Leyan,
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> What kind of stuff were you after? QGIS does have a field calculator
> which can do expressions for calculations.
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> Nathan
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> From: Leyan
> Sent: 21/10/2012 12:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Editing Data in Attribute Table/How Do I
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> Hi Ben,
>
> If you work with shapefile, you can open the dbf file with LibreOffice
> and do more advanced editing here. Be careful not to delete or reorder
> lines. I agree it would be very nice to see these features included in
> the attributes editing.
>
> Leyan
>
> On 10/20/2012 11:49 PM, Ben Jones wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A couple of questions re editing data in the attribute table:
>>
>> 1) Is it possible to add/change attribute data to multiple selected items in one single operation (I'm presently selecting the items, opening the attribute table, ticking show selected only, and then manually pasting the relevant data into the row for each item)? Surely there is a more intelligent way to do this?
>>
>> 2) Is there a "find and replace" tool that can be used to change matching data to a new value when editing data in the attribute table?
>>
>> 3) The MultiEdit plugin (http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/MultiEdit/) sounds like it may be helpful when editing data in the attribute table but I haven't been able to install it (it doesn't appear in the list of plugins in the plugin installer). How do I install this plugin?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
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