Re: [Qgis-developer] problem with 'toreal' in field calculator

2015-03-10 Thread Junior Delaz
hi, If your field is recognized by QGIS as a string one, trying to overwrite its values type will fail as they are intended to be string in THIS field. This is why when you create a new numeric field and make conversion, it's ok (this new field expect numeric values, so it'll recognize your

[Qgis-developer] problem with 'toreal' in field calculator

2015-03-10 Thread Matteo Ghetta
Hi all, I have a filed made up by numeric values but recognized as text (should be a WFS issue and not a QGIS problem). I've used the 'toreal' function of the field calculator in order to update the field but nothing changed (numbers are still read as text). Strange is that if I create a new field