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

[Charles Dixon-Paver]

Maybe a better discussion to be having is "can we make it possible to
manually edit layer ids", but i think that will probably be dependant on
the existing QEPs like
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/76

On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 21:29, Jésahel Benoist <djes1975 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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()
>>
>>>
> Sure
>
>
>>>
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