Bug report #20201: Forms in search mode: relation reference widgets show "equal to" be default instead of "Exclude field" - QGIS Application - QGIS Issue Tracking

Bug report #20201

Forms in search mode: relation reference widgets show "equal to" be default instead of "Exclude field"

Added by Andreas Neumann about 6 years ago. Updated about 6 years ago.

Status:	Closed
Priority:	High
Assignee:	Denis Rouzaud
Category:	Forms
Affected QGIS version:	3.3(master)	Regression?:	No
Operating System:	any	Easy fix?:	No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:	No	Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:	No	Copied to github as #:	28022

Description

When opening an attribute table and is switching to "Search mode" (Ctrl-F), all widget values should be excluded from the search by default.

However, all relation reference widgets, default to "equal to" be default, when entering a new search. This should be changed to "Exclude field" by default.

Otherwise the search may search for NULL values in the relation reference widget by default or the first entry (if there are no NULL values), resulting in a lot less (or no) results.

qgis_search-mode_equal-to.png - This form in search mode shows that all relation reference widgets default to "Equal to" instead of "Exclude field" (139 KB) Andreas Neumann, 2018-10-24 09:20 AM