Hi Yves, Thanks for your reply. What drop down list are you talking about? In what menu/dialogue/context menu?
Andreas On 2016-03-02 16:39, Yves Jacolin wrote: > Andreas, > > I though that you can edit the request of your virtual layer. In the drop > down > list you c an choose the one to change. > > Am I wrong? > > Y. > On Wednesday, March 02, 2016 16:27:07 Neumann, Andreas wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am experimenting with the virtual layers. They are quite cool! >> >> I have some suggesions/questions: >> >> * It would be nice to have a preview of my query results. Currently it >> is either it works - or not. If it works, but the results are wrong you >> have to start from scratch. I would suggest that when you press on the >> test button you would not only display "No error" or the error message, >> but maybe the first 10 rows of the result. >> * Updating the virtual layer: it would be really nice if I could >> edit/improve on my virtual layers without having to start completely >> from scratch. --> Oh - now I found out that if you select an existing >> virtual layer and then use "Layer" --> "Add Layer" --> "Add Virtual >> Layer", that you can refresh an existing virtual layer. This is really >> not obvious. I think this is more a usability issue. >> * it is not very obvious how you can reuse an already existing >> geometry column. I discovered it by accident, that you can use >> layer.geometry (regardless of the original name of the geometry column), >> but I think that it is not obvious. A better hint in the the tooltip >> would probably help. >> * Unique identifier column: If you join several tables, you often have >> the issue that you need to create an artificial primary key. Could we >> offer a preconfigured builtin pkey - something like a rowid for such >> cases? >> * What is the exact purpose of the "Embedded Layers" where you can >> add/import/remove layers? I noticed that existing layers of the project >> work anyway without adding/importing them first. Is the idea that you >> can work on layers that aren't in the project? >> >> Should I open feature request tickets for these or are there already >> plans to address one or the other of the above issues? >> >> Thanks anyway for this interesting new feature! >> >> Andreas
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