Function output to Temporary Scratch Layer

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Author Name: Kyle Somerville (Kyle Somerville)
Original Redmine Issue: 12548

Redmine category:unknown

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It would be useful to be able to have the option to save the output from all functions (including processing toolbox funtions) to a temporary scratch layer (now supported in 2.8) rather than having to create new permanent raster or vector files to contain results.

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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enter "memory:" as output file to achive this.

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Author Name: Kyle Somerville (Kyle Somerville)

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Jürgen Fischer wrote:

enter "memory:" as output file to achive this.

Sorry, I cant get this to work when using e.g. Raster Calculator? Error message:

"Invalid Layer, cannot open GDAL dataset memory:Testlayer.tif...etc...does not exist in the file syste, and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Kyle Somerville wrote:

Jürgen Fischer wrote:

enter "memory:" as output file to achive this.

Sorry, I cant get this to work when using e.g. Raster Calculator? Error message:

"Invalid Layer, cannot open GDAL dataset memory:Testlayer.tif...etc...does not exist in the file syste, and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.

it is just "memory:" or in processing just leave empty the output field.

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Kyle Somerville wrote:

Jürgen Fischer wrote:

enter "memory:" as output file to achive this.

Sorry, I cant get this to work when using e.g. Raster Calculator?

I thought you were referring to processing only.

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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This was done in 3.0

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