[Qgis-user] Starting QGIS with pre-configured settings

[McDonaldR]

Hi Saber

Thanks for that - sorted.

What was confusing me was how to generate the INI file in the first place.  Starting QGIS from the command line with the  - - configpath option set to C:\temp\qgis2 sorted that.  And then setting all the options in QGIS wrote the settings to the INI file (including PG and WMS connections).  And this file can now be copied to the shared drive (or to each laptop).

That's just saved me three hours!

Cheers

Ross

From: Saber Razmjooei [mailto:saber.razmjooei at lutraconsulting.co.uk]
Sent: 19 March 2015 12:27
To: McDonaldR
Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] Starting QGIS with pre-configured settings

Hi Ross,


You can set it once, save it on a shared drive. And change the bat file to start qgis with that config file:
start "QGIS" /B "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\bin\qgis-bin.exe %*
to
start "QGIS" /B "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\bin\qgis-bin.exe --configpath X:\FOLDERWHERE USER HAVE FULL ACCESS\.qgis %*
X:\FOLDERWHERE USER HAVE FULL ACCESS should be something like this: h:\%USERNAME% this is, for example, the shared folder for each user on h: drive in windows.

For WMS and PG connection, maybe you can set one, save it and share it with others.

Cheers,
Saber


From: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of McDonaldR
Sent: 19 March 2015 12:05
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Qgis-user] Starting QGIS with pre-configured settings

Hi List

I need to run QGIS on a set of laptops (8) for some short internal training sessions for 24 different users.  How can I get QGIS to start with some config options (see here http://qgis.tips/tip/10) so that each user has a PostgreSQL connection, a couple of WMS connections and some default options set (rendering, CRS, proxy, etc)?

Getting each user to set up the connections and options takes a chunk of time at the beginning of the session.  Get all users to open a default project with the training layers loaded?

Thanks

Ross

Ross McDonald | GIS Data Coordinator | Resources Department, IT Division | Angus Council, Angus House, Orchardbank Business Park, Forfar, DD8 1AT
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