Make Designing forms in QGIS friendlier

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Author Name: Saber Razmjooei (@saberraz) Original Redmine Issue: 22099

Redmine category:edit_widget

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The current way of creating and editing forms in QGIS is not ideal. It has all the great tools/features to built the forms but it can be improved to be a but more user-friendly. Here are some of the areas to improve it:

• Having a preview in the form designer
• Re-designing the current layout: it is confusing and all options are displayed. Some can be hidden away under advanced options.
• Logic based forms: allow attribute to be visible/editable based on the logic from other attributes
• Allow simple form design in Form view (when browsing data).

[haubourg]

Having a preview in the form designer +1

Logic based forms: allow attribute to be visible/editable based on the logic from other attributes

isn't it already possible using the visibility expression? Are you meaning something more powerful?

Allow simple form design in Form view (when browsing data).

can you elaborate this point?

Re-designing the current layout: it is confusing and all options are displayed. Some can be hidden away under advanced options.

you mean widget options ?

[haubourg]

ping @saberraz

[saberraz]

@haubourg see my ideas below with a bit of more explanations.

Logic based example: If Field_1 is Sewer then Field_2 will be value widget with: 300 mm and 600 mm else hidden.

Simple form design: when you are in Form view (e.g. opening attribute table and changing the view to Form view), we should offer some basic form design to user: Date, hidden, value, Advanced (which will open the layer properties window). See the icons on the left of the fields. If user wants to hide id , the widget on the left can be clicked and from the drop-down menu, one can select the hidden widget.

For widget under Attribute Forms in Layer Properties , there should be a handful of most commonly used widgets and the rest can be under advanced.