multiple Feature Attributes forms can be opened for the same feature when Identified

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Author Name: Steven Mizuno (Steven Mizuno)
Original Redmine Issue: 13520
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:map_tools

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Multiple Feature Attributes forms can be opened for the same feature when "Auto open form" is checked and you click multiple times on one feature or if you do View feature form multiple times on an item in Identify Results. This can be confusing when many such forms are opened, and it can lead to loss of data when editing a layer.

Examples: which form for a given feature was changed? or make changes in different forms of a given feature -- which one wins?.

As the form windows are top-level windows they may be obscured by the QGIS main window which can be even more confusing. There is a clue that forms are still open as the highlight is drawn one for each form. And the windows are shown in the task bar as well.

I believe the Features Attributes form should be application modal, or at the very least, create only one window per feature and then put focus on that window on subsequent clicking on a feature.

This is somewhat related to #21512

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Related issue(s): #21512 (relates)
Redmine related issue(s): 13465

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Author Name: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)

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-1 for modal because it's unnecessarily restrictive

+1 for only one window per feature

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Author Name: Harrissou Santanna (@DelazJ)

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Anita Graser wrote:

-1 for modal because it's unnecessarily restrictive

+1 for only one window per feature

Totally agree (no modal and only one form)!

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• fixed_version_id removed Version 2.12

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• priority_id was changed from High to Normal

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Fixed in changeset "20197c2fa31e454b095be6b68771274ec5540c39".

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• relates was configured as Identify Results panel : clicking on "Clear results" should close all feature attribute's form #21512