On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 9:03 AM Thomas B <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am Mi., 24. März 2021 um 08:16 Uhr schrieb [email protected] > <[email protected]>: >> >> Nop, the trickiest part is to have a configuration policy beyond the basic >> IT packaging. I'm using these variables mainly to work with oracle and >> other in-house apps where things like the user_account_name are central, I >> would dread to have a week long fix event after our users would have >> (rightfully from their point of view) checked this box. > > > Couldn't you use a Group Policy to set the PYQGIS_STARTUP environment > variable on every computer and then use a startup.py to make sure the > settings are correct? > I use this for other settings where I don't want the users to change them and > this works fine as the startup.py is run at every start of QGIS. > > ( Speaking about corporate use of QGIS: it would be nice to have something > like the Initialization scripts the QGIS-fork "Boundless Desktop" had: > https://boundless-desktop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system_admins/init_scripts.html > but it also works with one startup.py file. ) > > I am glad QGIS has the functionality to track who made the last changes to a > project file but at the same time I can understand concerns about it. > For me it would be a good compromise to inform new (non corporate) users with > the configuration wizard and let them decide what they want. I can still use > the startup.py to make sure the settings are correct. >
Hi, I am the author of the Boundless init scripts and I just wanted to stress that the global settings ini files are another way to pre-configure QGIS settings in a corporate environment. See: https://docs.qgis.org/3.16/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_configuration.html#globalsettingsfile Kind regards -- Alessandro Pasotti QCooperative: www.qcooperative.net ItOpen: www.itopen.it _______________________________________________ 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
