exactly. There are more situations where attributes need to be harmonized between two different schemas.
It would be great if something generic could be developed that can be re-used in other situations. With that in mind - perhaps a QEP makes sense. Andreas On 2016-10-28 12:54, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > Yep, both good ideas :-) > > One thing I think of: a 'mapper'-dialog could maybe also be used in the > some algorithms like an 'union between 2 layers' and other algorithms > which handle 2 or more feature types etc etc > > Regards, > > Richard Duivenvoorde > > On 28-10-16 10:54, Neumann, Andreas wrote: Hi Arnaud, > > This sounds like a very useful feature to have. A big +1! > > Not sure if it requires a QEP - but it never hurts to do one. Perhaps > other people have more idea, once they see a description or mockup. > > Thanks in advance! > > Andreas > > On 2016-10-27 17:52, Arnaud Morvan wrote: > > Hello QGIS devs, > > I want to add a field mapper dialog when pasting features to layers. > > For now when pasting features with attributes names that do not exists > on the destination layer, > those attributes values are lost. > > When clipboard fields and destination layer fields are not strictly > the sames, > In QGIS 3.0, I want to popup a new dialog with fields mapper configurator. > > Dialog UI could be similar to Refactor Fields Algorithm, showing a > list of destination fields : > > source expression (expression widgets) => destination field > > For example, I often use this workflow : > Open a shapefile or autocad file. > Use the refactor fields to get temporary layer with same fields as > destination. > Paste to postgis database layer. > > I think having this dialog showing up when needed could really ease > data manipulation from one layer to another. > And I want to give the possibility to use expressions. > > Any remarks, do you think I need to open to open a QEP for that ? > > Regards > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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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