Yeah - I know about the CASE WHEN possibility, which is great if you want to do it all in one statement, but I think the WHERE section would still be useful for people familiar with databases and who want to set different values to different subsets one by one, without having to leave the field calculator.
Andreas On 2016-04-08 14:09, DelazJ wrote: > Hi, Andreas, what about using a CASE WHEN ... THEN...( ELSE ...) END > function? > > 2016-04-08 13:53 GMT+02:00 Neumann, Andreas <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> Would it be possible to add a "WHERE" clause to the field calculator? >> Currently, if you want to update a subset of the records you would have to >> do a two-step producedure: >> >> 1. Make a selection >> >> 2. Open field calculator and use the checkbox "only update selected >> features". >> >> I think, in some workflows it would be more efficient if one had a text >> input area where one can enter a WHERE clause and the field calculator would >> respect the WHERE clause, if filled in. It would reduce the two-step >> operation into a one or 1.5 step operation, so more efficient. If you have >> to update based on multiple different subsets it would be even more >> efficient. >> >> Would this be a useful enhancement to more users? Esp. for those who know >> SQL ;-) ? >> >> Thanks and greetings, >> >> Andreas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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