On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 at 17:56, johnrobot <[email protected]> wrote: > > Continuing my quest for QGIS ETL perfection, I have a few more questions: > > 1) Is there a way of selecting output from multiple algorithms as input for > an algorithm? In the drop down list, I can only select one input source and > I often want to use more than one.
This works, if the algorithm accepts multiple layers. E.g. merge vector layers, package layers, etc. It doesn't work for algorithms which work on a single input layer (e.g. buffer). > 2) I want to adjust lower/upper attribute string values. I can of course use > upper/lower functions in the Field Calculator but what if I want to change > "firstname lastname" to "Firstname Lastname"? Is there a way of changing > only the first character in each word? > > 3) Is there a way of splitting an attribute with a specific character? For > example, I might want to split an attribute with '>' and set an upper limit > for how many new attributes may be created by this operation, in case the > input attribute contains more than one '>'. This seems hard to do with the > Field Calculator, where I have to specify the name and data type of a single > new attribute. Both these could be done by the "Refactor fields" algorithm. > 4) Continuing on #3: Why do I have to specify the data type inside a model? > Shouldn´t that be a task when writing the output? Before that, the user > shouldn´t have to think about data types. Can you elaborate? Nyall _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
