Feature request #8743

Field calculator: allow "Formula" to receive a value from a "Number" parameter

Added by Filipe Dias over 10 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Normal
Assignee:Victor Olaya
Category:Processing/Modeller
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:fixed/implemented
Easy fix?:No Copied to github as #:17457

Description

It would be useful to be able to insert a "Number" type parameter in "Formula" of Field Calculator. E.g:

I want to create new field and populate it with a user defined number using the Modeler.

History

#1 Updated by Filipe Dias over 10 years ago

If there's an alternative way of doing this, it could help answer this question:

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/72569/field-calculator-in-qgis-modeler-sextante/73054#73054

#2 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

  • Project changed from 78 to QGIS Application
  • Category deleted (64)

#3 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

  • Category set to Processing/Modeller

#4 Updated by Alexander Bruy about 7 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed/implemented
  • Status changed from Open to Closed

Fixed in master.

#5 Updated by Norwin Roosen about 6 years ago

How is this solved? I still cannot reference model inputs within the field calculator, afaics. (in 2.18.15)

I searched the commits around 2017-01-09, but didn't find anything:
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commits?after=cf35affedcb93f7ef560397b52fc932838cacb04+8500

Please reopen if there isn't any commit fixing this, as this is really a big use case for the modeler.

#8 Updated by Stefan Newluck over 5 years ago

this definitely works here on qgis/master.

Could you provide an answer (ideally with screenshots) to the gisSE answer then? I'm curious to find out how to do it.

#9 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 5 years ago

Stefan Newluck wrote:

this definitely works here on qgis/master.

Could you provide an answer (ideally with screenshots) to the gisSE answer then? I'm curious to find out how to do it.

I tried exactly as in the screenshot in that question on GIS_SE.

#10 Updated by Christoph Fink about 5 years ago

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

Stefan Newluck wrote:

this definitely works here on qgis/master.

Could you provide an answer (ideally with screenshots) to the gisSE answer then? I'm curious to find out how to do it.

I tried exactly as in the screenshot in that question on GIS_SE.

Creating a custom script would work alright I assume (ignoring for the moment, that the code provided on GIS SE is for pre 3.0 QGIS). But is that what was considered to have “fixed” this issue? Were you able to make it work without a custom script? (I can’t)

(Judging from the number of GIS SE questions on this I would believe that a simpler solution would be very much sought after by many. In my opinion, the field calculator from the processing toolbox, in general, is not exactly the most user-friendly – it could use an expression builder, e.g.)

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