[Qgis-user] Saving layers

[Bo Victor Thomsen]

Jonathan -

Sorry for the noise in my previous posting. I didn't see the post 
explaining it was a Oracle  based layer. I don't use Oracle, but the 
following works for postgres in QGIS 2.0:

  * Style the layer
  * Push the Layer properties -> Style -> Save Style button. It will
    show a drop-down list with 3 choices: "QGIS Layer style file",  "SLD
    file", "Save style in database (Postgres)". Choose "Save style in
    database (Postgres)"

I don't know if the "Save style in database..." option exists for 
Oracle. It doesn't exist for MS-SQLServer.  Make a feature request if it 
doesn't. It can't be a major exercise to  convert the postgres specific 
code to oracle specific code for this function.

As a last resort you can make a "standard" project file. When the users 
want add a Oracle layer they can use this project file from the "Layer" 
-> "Embed layers and groups", choose the project file you created, and 
choose the oracle layer from this "standard" project to embed into their 
own project.

Regards
Bo Victor Thomsen
Aestas-GIS
Denmark

Den 17-10-2013 18:55, Jonathan Moules skrev:
> Hi Richard,
> That's useful to know, however I was planning on using it with Oracle 
> layers so it wouldn't work for me. Basically what we do with ArcMap 
> (.lyr) and MapInfo (.tab) is create links to data which we share on a 
> network drive so that our users can easily access our data pre-styled. 
> It works quite well so if we go toward QGIS we'd want to use it there too.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
> On 17 October 2013 17:47, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net 
> <mailto:rdmailings at duif.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 17-10-13 15:36, Jonathan Moules wrote:
>     > Hi List,
>     >   I'm wondering if QGIS can save links to layers as stand alone
>     files,
>     > similar to how ArcMap does it.
>     > I know I can save the style, but I want to save everything about the
>     > layer including data location etc in a file which I can then
>     share with
>     > others. The style only saves the style.
>     >
>     > I can't seem to find such a function - is there one?
>
>     Hi Jonathan,
>
>     one 'hidden' feature is that if you save a style as a qml file next to
>     your data (shape file), and name it exactly the same as your shape,
>     loading the shp in qgis will load the style with it.
>
>     BUT: only working with filebased data, and NOT saving your extent
>     I think.
>
>     You can save a project, and use it as a template. And if I recall
>     correct there was some way to use one project as a subprobject for
>     another one, but I cannot find it anymore...
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Richard
>
>
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