drag and drop of layers or layers group between projects produces inconsistent results

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Author Name: A mulazzani (A mulazzani)
Original Redmine Issue: 10758
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:map_legend

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With two qgis project opened, if I move a layer or a layer group from one project to another, picking it with the mouse pointer (keeping the left button pressed), the layer/group disappears from the first project, and doesn’t work in the one where it has been moved (only its name appears in the legend).
Copy and Paste command appears to be disabled to carry out this function.

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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• subject was changed from copying layers or layer gruop between projects to copying layers or layer group between projects

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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was this working on a previous qgis release?

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• category_id was configured as Map Legend
• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: A mulazzani (A mulazzani)

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No, it wasn't. But I noticed that now is possibile to drag a layer or a group of layers from one project to another. But, as I wrote, the layer or group is removed from one legend and it doesn't work in the new one. Insteda I would expect to have it copied.
This would be a very useful function, when for example you need to prepare more maps with the same base map composed by many layers which should have the same look in all the maps.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• version was changed from 2.4.0 to master
• subject was changed from copying layers or layer group between projects to darg and drop of layers or layers group between projects produces inconsistent results
• status_id was changed from Feedback to Open

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• subject was changed from darg and drop of layers or layers group between projects produces inconsistent results to drag and drop of layers or layers group between projects produces inconsistent results

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Author Name: Ger CO (Ger CO)

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Any chance this feature will be included in V3?

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Author Name: Ger CO (Ger CO)

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Any chance this feature will be included in V3?

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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I'm not aware of any plans to address this yet, but you can still make this part of QGIS 3. See http://nyalldawson.net/2016/08/how-to-effectively-get-things-changed-in-qgis/

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Author Name: Peter Drexel (Peter Drexel)

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There is a plugin available to ~ do this:
https://github.com/gacarrillor/CopyLayersAndGroupsToClipboard

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• easy_fix was configured as 0
• regression was configured as 0

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR

Source:
http://blog.qgis.org/2019/03/09/end-of-life-notice-qgis-2-18-ltr/

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed
• resolution was changed from to end of life