Hi Richard,

Yes - I think this would be very useful. I would prefer the checkbox for
enabling/disabling without losing the filter string.

Thanks,
Andreas

On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 16:41, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmaili...@duif.net>
wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> When I add a filter to a layer, I often want to temporarily disable that
> filter (just to see what the full view is).
>
> Working a lot with sql scripts recently, in which you comment out (a
> part) of a sql query by putting '--' in front of it, I tried that also
> in the Query builder, and though it looks like I'm commenting out my
> query (the query is greyed-out), it's not working, I get a parsing
> error.
>
> So usability question:
> - would other people be interested in temporarily disabling the layer
> filter query, or am I the only one :-)
>
> If yes:
>
> - should it be implemented by 'commenting' out part of the query?
> - or should there be some 'temporarily disable' checkbox in the query
> builder)
> - should it be a context menu (either the layer, or the little filter
> overlay icon in the layermanager)
>
> Tech question:
> - any forseeing issues with such thing?
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
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