[Qgis-user] Themes, visibility, layout, report, atlas and Layer ID vs Layer name

[Jésahel Benoist]

Le jeu. 19 août 2021 à 20:23, Charles Dixon-Paver <charles at kartoza.com> a
écrit :

> I would imagine there are just far too many projects and use cases where
> the same layer name is used for multiple layers.
>

Yes, certainly. But the random id is a bad solution. I think the id should
be created sequentially and could be modified by the user.

Saving and loading themes etc is a feature request I imagine.
>

Yes :)

Copying styles between layers is supported (and you can save style and
> layer definitions).
>

Yes, a good tip is to assignate keys to copy/paste style.

I imagine most issues can be resolved by just using an expression based id
> wherever possible, with something like this:
>
> QgsProject.instance().mapLayersByName('World Map')[0].id()
>
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Sure


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