Bug report #5726
Labelling: number formatting does not work for expressions
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: |  Nathan Woodrow | ||
| Category: | Labelling | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | master | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Easy fix?: | No | |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | Yes | Resolution: | fixed |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 15240 |
Description
On the new labelling engine, there is the possibility to format numbers by limiting the decimal places and adding a + sign if the number is positive. However, it only works when choosing directly a field, not after the evaluation of an expression. This is especially an issue for $length that comes with a very impressive but quite useless precision and makes for unreadable labels by default. It also leads to some counter-intuitive behavior where choosing an expression like "value" does not give the same result as choosing the field "value".
I join a patch that extends the ability to format number to the expressions.
label_number_formatting_expression.diff 
- patch to format result of expressions in labeling
(1.83 KB)
History
#1
Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 12 years ago
- Assignee set to Nathan Woodrow
#2
Updated by Paolo Cavallini over 11 years ago
- Target version set to Version 2.0.0
#3
Updated by Nathan Woodrow almost 11 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from Open to Closed
There is now a format_number function in master.
#4
Updated by Larry Shaffer almost 11 years ago
Hi,
Issue should also be fixed with 45f374f