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

[Leyan]

Thanks to you and Bernd for the tips ! I still hope someday these 
features will be also available in the attribute editing table, this 
seems more intuitive to me ...

Regards,

Leyan

On 10/22/2012 03:42 PM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Hi Leyan,
>
> Are you aware that there is a tool in the advanced editing toolbar 
> called "Merge attributes of selected features". There are two 
> identical icons next to each other. One also merges the geometries 
> into one feature, the other one only sets all attributes of the 
> selected features to the same attributes. It assigns the same 
> attribute values to all features (except the primary key column). It 
> allows you to set which of the selected features is used or you can 
> calculcate mean/max/min or the most common attribute value.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andreas
>
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:44:00 +0800, Leyan wrote:
>> 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:
>>>   MultiEdit
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>>> Leyan,
>>>
>>> What kind of stuff were you after? QGIS does have a field calculator
>>> which can do expressions for calculations.
>>>
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>> From: Leyan
>>> Sent: 21/10/2012 12:56 PM
>>> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Editing Data in Attribute Table/How Do I
>>> Install MultiEdit
>>>
>>> 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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