Hi all,
Thanks all for your feedback. The "Add delimited text" way of loading
CSV data is a lot more powerful and more flexible than the OGR way. So I
would really prefer to use the CSV this way and still be able to edit
and save directly to the CSV.
Would this be possible as an enhancement?
I don't need concurrent/simultaneous editing with Spreadsheets. All I
want is an editable CSV directly from QGIS, so that it could be at a
later time, be opened in Spreadsheets again (not opened at the same time
in QGIS as well).
Andreas
On 19.07.2017 16:23, Stefan Keller wrote:
Nice hints, Bernhard and Nyall
Thinking about, there's no really complicated technical reason why
concurrent editing would not work.
It's simply a matter in which mode the reader SW opens the file.
* QGIS delimited text provider: locks.
* QGIS OGR data provider: does not lock - but not ask to reload if
file has changed.
* LibreOffice Writer and Excel: lock
* Notepad++: does not lock - and asks to reload if file has changed
* Other text editors: depends...
So, in fact e could slightly enhance the situation, if QGIS delimited
text provider would not lock (and eventually ask to reload when file
changed).
The remaining problem is that we can't change the behaviour of
LibreOffice Writer (Windows) nor Excel short term...
Eventually someone could ask the LibreOffice Writer dev's for a solution?
:Stefan
2017-07-19 8:48 GMT+02:00 Nyall Dawson <[email protected]>:
On 19 July 2017 at 15:45, Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Is there a particular technical reason why csv/text files aren't editable in
QGIS? Or is this mainly for historical reasons and it could be implemented
as editable with reasonable effort?
It depends how they are loaded. If you load them using the delimited
text provider, then no, they aren't editable.
BUT.....
if you load them as a ogr layer, they will be! (Since GDAL supports this)
So drag and drop them to QGIS, or add via the "add vector layer"
button and they'll be editable.
Nyall
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