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add tooltip on fields in identify window / attribute window / feature form #15144

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qgib opened this issue May 9, 2012 · 4 comments · Fixed by #35188
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add tooltip on fields in identify window / attribute window / feature form #15144

qgib opened this issue May 9, 2012 · 4 comments · Fixed by #35188
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qgib commented May 9, 2012

Author Name: Regis Haubourg (@haubourg)
Original Redmine Issue: 5559

Redmine category:gui

Many times, fields name are short and not explicit enough to understand their meaning.
Comments are already available in fields properties and are perfect for that. Thoses comments are really nicely integrated when using Postgis.

I would love to have tooltips displaying comments, real name if alias is used and maybe field type and precision. see attached pictures for examples
Anyone interested in it?
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qgib commented May 9, 2012

Author Name: Regis Haubourg (@haubourg)

Here is the picture

  • 4453 was configured as qgis_field_comment_tooltip.jpg

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qgib commented Oct 6, 2012

Author Name: Pirmin Kalberer (Pirmin Kalberer)

  • fixed_version_id was changed from Version 2.0.0 to Future Release - Nice to have

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qgib commented Apr 30, 2017

Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

  • easy_fix was configured as 0

@qgib qgib added Feature Request GUI/UX Related to QGIS application GUI or User Experience labels May 24, 2019
@qgib qgib added this to the Future Release - Nice to have milestone May 24, 2019
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suricactus commented Mar 18, 2020 •
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This is easy to fix and nice to have. I would suggest to add a function QString QgsField::displayNameTooltip(), that returns the desired tooltip, similar to QgsField::displayNameWithAlias() and QgsField::displayName(). This way the field tooltips can be unified across the tools and plugins. The current situation to display the field name once again as a tooltip is useless.

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FIX qgis#15144 add tooltip on fields in identify window / attribute w…
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…indow / feature form

- added new `QString QgsField::displayType( const bool showConstraints = false )` to unify the display of field types whenever length or precision are present
- added new argument `expression` to `QgsFieldModel::fieldToolTip( const QgsField &field, const QString &expression = QStringLiteral() )`. Now the tooltip shows "<alias> (<field>)\n<type>\n<comment>\n<expression>" with appropriate formatting
- added meaningful field tooltips in the "Identify Results" dialog
- field tooltips show the same content in "Feature Attributes" form, "Attribute Table" and "Identify Tool"

Fixes qgis#15144
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FIX #15144 add tooltip on fields in identify window / attribute windo…
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…w / feature form

- added new `QString QgsField::displayType( const bool showConstraints = false )` to unify the display of field types whenever length or precision are present
- added new argument `expression` to `QgsFieldModel::fieldToolTip( const QgsField &field, const QString &expression = QStringLiteral() )`. Now the tooltip shows "<alias> (<field>)\n<type>\n<comment>\n<expression>" with appropriate formatting
- added meaningful field tooltips in the "Identify Results" dialog
- field tooltips show the same content in "Feature Attributes" form, "Attribute Table" and "Identify Tool"

Fixes #15144
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