Feature request #18411
Allow to add comment to an existing field
| Status: | Open | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | Vectors | ||
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | |
| Easy fix?: | No | Copied to github as #: | 26300 |
Description
In layer's properties --> Source Fields tab, there's no way to add a comment to an existing field. This seems to be possible only if done during field creation.
In 2.x, a double-click on the comment cell was enough to add/edit any comment.
History
#1
Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 6 years ago
- Priority changed from Normal to High
#2
Updated by Nyall Dawson over 6 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Feedback
I don't think that's the case -- field comments are read-only, and must be set at the provider backend level. The bug here is that the interface doesn't use a read-only control, so it makes it look like they are editable when in reality they aren't.
#3
Updated by Harrissou Santanna over 6 years ago
In 2.18, you can add comment to shapefiles fields.
#4
Updated by Harrissou Santanna over 6 years ago
- Status changed from Feedback to Open
@m-kuhn, may I have your opinion here, please? I fail to get a reaction from David who afaik is the one that reworks this dialog so making a call to you :) Not be able to add custom comment is annoying me so I'd like to know if it's a bug or an intended block. Thanks.
#5
Updated by Matthias Kuhn over 6 years ago
Can you provide me with a 2.18 project with the comment set?
#6
Updated by Harrissou Santanna over 6 years ago
Yes, I'll do it once I get a working 2.18. Since this week-end osgeo4w updates throw errors on both my home and working machines, hence no python on master and no 2.18 at all. Need to figure out what i have messed up with meanwhile.
Otherwise, I tried on an old 2.18 (macOS) to create a project and it turns out that I could add a comment in eg a shapefile field, but when I reopened the layer properties, my comment was cleared. Weird.
But I'm sure I used this feature years ago to document my fields in project before I move data to PG.
#7
Updated by Matthias Kuhn over 6 years ago
Exactly the situation I remember: there is an editable field but its content is discarded right away and nowhere saved to. So IMO this is a GUI bug fix that it's now readonly and adding comments would be a feature request.
#8
Updated by Harrissou Santanna over 6 years ago
- Priority changed from High to Normal
- Tracker changed from Bug report to Feature request
- Subject changed from Unable to add comment to an existing field to Allow to add comment to an existing field