<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>We recently updated from Białowieża to Prizren (3.34.5). We are providing connections to WMS services on a central server and deliver these information via startup.py to the clients.</div><div><br></div><div>In previous versions we used the key connections-wms\… for setting up the configuration for the WMS connection entries. But with Prizren we noticed a problem:</div><div>If QGIS ist started and after (!) startup.py was finished successfully, our connections with the key connections-wms\… will be migrated/translated/… to the key ows\items\wms\connections\items\… The problem ist, that not all settings will be migrated to these new keys, e.g. user and password are missing, i.e. the connections will not contain any login information in the QGIS GUI. It seems that the key <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">own\items\wms\connections\items\… is overwriting </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">connections-wms\… I found a bug on GitHub that seems to go in the same direction:</span></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/56713"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/56713" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:150px;" width="300" height="150" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="56713.png" src="cid:B3E5DB1C-9134-4D18-847C-B313B71C39AC"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/56713" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">Removed services from datasourcemanager (WMS/WFS) reappear on next startup · Issue #56713 · qgis/QGIS</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/56713" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">github.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><div style="display: block;"><br></div><div style="display: block;">Changing the keys from <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">connections-wms\…</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> to </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">own\items\wms\connections\items\…</span><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> via Notepad++ will solve our problem. But could anybody describe what is happening inside QGS3.ini or does anybody has a link to a website so that I could read about this topic and to understand this behaviour better?</span></font></div><div style="display: block;"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div style="display: block;"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best regards,</span></font></div><div style="display: block;"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Christoph</span></font></div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></font></div></body></html>