QLR file loading ignoring <widgetv2config> configuration, as opposed when loading from QGS

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Author Name: Juan Manuel Perez (@juanmpd)
Original Redmine Issue: 15920
Affected QGIS version: 2.18.0
Redmine category:edit_widget

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QGIS Layer Configuration includes information about edit widgets: edit widget type (Text Edit, Value Map, ...), constraints (Not null,...), editability, default values,...

When you "Save As Layer Definition file" you get a .qlr file with all this information.
But when you try to load this .qlr file ("Add from Layer Definition File"), all information about edit widgets is ignored, it is not restored.

By the way, when you save a QGIS project, you get a .qgs file, that also includes all this information. But opening the .qgs project do indeed correctly restores all edit widget information.

By opening both .qgs and .qlr files with a text editor, we have seen that they use the same schema format to describe all that information (under ). So it seems that processing this information should follow the same rules no matter if it is read from a QLR or a QGS file...

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Author Name: Bo Thomsen (Bo Thomsen)

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Knock knock,

This is really a LARGE issue for those of us, that uses qlr - functionality. Take a look at the QLR Browser plugin as an example.

I can possibly scrape some money from the the bottom of my budget allowance to fix this issue. Either this year. Or in the start of the next year.

I think Nathan was the original author of the qlr functionality. Why didn't you implement the widget creation together with styles ? Was there any difficulties or did you run out of time / resources ??

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• assigned_to_id was configured as Nathan Woodrow

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Author Name: Nathan Woodrow (@NathanW2)

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QLR files were intended to be just styles and label information at this time. In QGIS 3.0 I would like to split all this stuff out so you can have the option but at the time I didn't want widget information.

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Author Name: Bo Thomsen (Bo Thomsen)

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I do understand why you don't want to mess around with this request in ver. 2.18. But it would be very nice if it could make it into ver. 3.0 :-)
Send me an email regarding funding if it's necessary (bvtho@frederikssund.dk)

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• fixed_version_id was configured as Version 3.0

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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: Nathan Woodrow (@NathanW2)

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• description was changed from QGIS Layer Configuration includes information about edit widgets: edit widget type (Text Edit, Value Map, ...), constraints (Not null,...), editability, default values,...

When you "Save As Layer Definition file" you get a .qlr file with all this information.
But when you try to load this .qlr file ("Add from Layer Definition File"), all information about edit widgets is ignored, it is not restored.

By the way, when you save a QGIS project, you get a .qgs file, that also includes all this information. But opening the .qgs project do indeed correctly restores all edit widget information.

By opening both .qgs and .qlr files with a text editor, we have seen that they use the same schema format to describe all that information (under ). So it seems that processing this information should follow the same rules no matter if it is read from a QLR or a QGS file...

to QGIS Layer Configuration includes information about edit widgets: edit widget type (Text Edit, Value Map, ...), constraints (Not null,...), editability, default values,...

When you "Save As Layer Definition file" you get a .qlr file with all this information.
But when you try to load this .qlr file ("Add from Layer Definition File"), all information about edit widgets is ignored, it is not restored.

By the way, when you save a QGIS project, you get a .qgs file, that also includes all this information. But opening the .qgs project do indeed correctly restores all edit widget information.

By opening both .qgs and .qlr files with a text editor, we have seen that they use the same schema format to describe all that information (under ). So it seems that processing this information should follow the same rules no matter if it is read from a QLR or a QGS file...

• assigned_to_id removed Nathan Woodrow

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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/

QGIS 3.4 has recently become our new Long Term Release (LTR) version. This is a major step in our history – a long term release version based on the massive updates, library upgrades and improvements that we carried out in the course of the 2.x to 3x upgrade cycle.

We strongly encourage all users who are currently using QGIS 2.18 LTR as their preferred QGIS release to migrate to QGIS 3.4. This new LTR version will receive regular bugfixes for at least one year. It also includes hundreds of new functions, usability improvements, bugfixes, and other goodies. See the relevant changelogs for a good sampling of all the new features that have gone into version 3.4

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