Subgroup: User

Class: QgsUserProfileManager

class qgis.core.QgsUserProfileManager(rootLocation: str = '', parent: QObject = None)

Bases: PyQt5.QtCore.QObject

User profile manager used to manage user profiles for the instance of QGIS.

User profile manager is used to manager list, and manage user profiles on the users machine.

In QGIS 3 all settings, plugins, etc were moved into a %APPDATA%/profiles folder for each platform. This allows for manage different user profiles per machine vs the single default one that was allowed in the past.

A user profile is all settings and anything that used to be found in .qgis3 in the users home folder.

New in version 3.0: Methods

allProfiles A list of all found profile names.
childEvent
connectNotify
createUserProfile Create a user profile given by the name
customEvent
defaultProfileName Returns the name of the default profile that has been set in .
deleteProfile Deletes a profile from the root profiles folder.
disconnectNotify
getProfile Return the profile from the given root profile location.
isNewProfileNotificationEnabled Returns whether the manager is watching for the creation of new user profiles and emitting the profilesChanged() signal when this occurs.
isSignalConnected
loadUserProfile Starts a new instance of QGIS for the given profile.
profileExists Check if a profile exists.
profileForName Return the profile found for a given name.
receivers
resolveProfilesFolder Resolves the profiles folder for the given path.
rootLocation Returns the path to the root profiles location.
rootLocationIsSet Check if the root location has been set for the manager.
sender
senderSignalIndex
setActiveUserProfile Sets the active profile in the manager.
setDefaultFromActive Set the default profile name from the current active profile.
setDefaultProfileName Sets the default profile name.
setNewProfileNotificationEnabled Sets whether the manager should watch for the creation of new user profiles and emit the profilesChanged() signal when this occurs.
setRootLocation Set the root profile location for the profile manager.
timerEvent
userProfile The currently active user profile.

Signals

profilesChanged Emitted when the list of profiles is changed.

Attributes

allProfiles(self) → List[str]

A list of all found profile names.

Returns:
childEvent()
connectNotify()
createUserProfile(self, name: str) → QgsError

Create a user profile given by the name

Parameters:name
Returns:A QgsError which report if there was any error creating the user profile.
customEvent()
defaultProfileName(self) → str

Returns the name of the default profile that has been set in .default. First checks profile.ini in \profiles folder Then checks defaultProfile in global settings Finally returns “default” if all else fails

Returns:The name of the default profile.

Note

Setting overrideLocalProfile in global settings will always ignore profiles.ini

deleteProfile(self, name: str) → QgsError

Deletes a profile from the root profiles folder.

Parameters:name – The name of the profile to delete.
Returns:A QgsError with a message if the profile failed to be deleted.

Note

There is no undo on this as it deletes the folder from the machine.

disconnectNotify()
getProfile(self, defaultProfile: str = '', createNew: bool = True, initSettings: bool = True) → QgsUserProfile

Return the profile from the given root profile location. If no name is given it returns a profile called “default”. By default will create the profile folder if not found. By default will init the user settings.

Parameters:
  • defaultProfile – The profile name to find. Empty profile name will return “default” for the name.
  • createNew – Create the profile folder if it doesn’t exist.
  • initSettings – if the settings should be initialized
Returns:

The user profile

Note

Returns a new QgsUserProfile. Ownership transferred to caller.

isNewProfileNotificationEnabled(self) → bool

Returns whether the manager is watching for the creation of new user profiles and emitting the profilesChanged() signal when this occurs. By default new profile notification is disabled.

isSignalConnected()
loadUserProfile(self, name: str)

Starts a new instance of QGIS for the given profile.

Parameters:name – The profile to start QGIS with.
profileExists(self, name: str) → bool

Check if a profile exists.

Returns:False if the profile can’t be found.
profileForName(self, name: str) → QgsUserProfile

Return the profile found for a given name.

Parameters:name – The name of the profile to return.
Returns:A QgsUserprofile pointing to the location of the user profile.
profilesChanged

Emitted when the list of profiles is changed.

This signal will only be emitted when isNewProfileNotificationEnabled() is true. By default new profile notification is disabled.

receivers()
resolveProfilesFolder(basePath: str = '') → str

Resolves the profiles folder for the given path. Path will have \profiles appended to the path

Parameters:basePath – The base path to resolve the path from to append the \profiles folder to.
Returns:The root path to store user profiles.
rootLocation(self) → str

Returns the path to the root profiles location.

Returns:The root path to the profiles folder.
rootLocationIsSet(self) → bool

Check if the root location has been set for the manager.

Returns:True if the root location has been set.
sender()
senderSignalIndex()
setActiveUserProfile(self, profile: str)

Sets the active profile in the manager. This can only be set once. Setting this again does nothing.

Parameters:profile – The name of the active profile
setDefaultFromActive(self)

Set the default profile name from the current active profile.

setDefaultProfileName(self, name: str)

Sets the default profile name. The default profile name is used when loading QGIS with no arguments.

Parameters:name – The name of the profile to save.
setNewProfileNotificationEnabled(self, enabled: bool)

Sets whether the manager should watch for the creation of new user profiles and emit the profilesChanged() signal when this occurs. By default new profile notification is disabled.

Before calling this, ensure that the correct root location has been set via calling setRootLocation().

setRootLocation(self, rootProfileLocation: str)

Set the root profile location for the profile manager. All profiles are loaded from this location. Will also contain a profiles.ini for holding profile settings.

Parameters:rootProfileLocation – Path to the top level profile folder which contains folders for each profile.
timerEvent()
userProfile(self) → QgsUserProfile

The currently active user profile.

Returns:The currently active user profile.