Subgroup: Action

Class: QgsActionManager

class qgis.core.QgsActionManager(layer: QgsVectorLayer)

Bases: PyQt5.QtCore.QObject

Constructor

Storage and management of actions associated with a layer.

Actions can trigger custom code or applications to be executed based on attributes of a given feature.

Methods

action Gets an action by its id.
actions Returns a list of actions that are available in the given action scope.
addAction Add an action with the given name and action details.
childEvent
clearActions Removes all actions
connectNotify
customEvent
defaultAction Each scope can have a default action.
disconnectNotify
doAction Does the action using the expression engine to replace any embedded expressions in the action definition.
doActionFeature Does the given action.
isSignalConnected
layer Returns the layer
readXml Reads the actions in in XML format
receivers
removeAction Remove an action by its id.
sender
senderSignalIndex
setDefaultAction Each scope can have a default action.
timerEvent
writeXml Writes the actions out in XML format

Signals

Attributes

action(self, id: QUuid) → QgsAction

Gets an action by its id.

New in version 3.0.

actions(self, actionScope: str = '') → object

Returns a list of actions that are available in the given action scope. If no action scope is provided, all actions will be returned.

New in version 3.0.

addAction(self, type: QgsAction.ActionType, name: str, command: str, capture: bool = False) → QUuid

Add an action with the given name and action details. Will happily have duplicate names and actions. If capture is true, when running the action using doAction(), any stdout from the process will be captured and displayed in a dialog box.

addAction(self, type: QgsAction.ActionType, name: str, command: str, icon: str, capture: bool = False) -> QUuid Add an action with the given name and action details. Will happily have duplicate names and actions. If capture is true, when running the action using doAction(), any stdout from the process will be captured and displayed in a dialog box.

addAction(self, action: QgsAction) Add a new action to this list.

childEvent()
clearActions(self)

Removes all actions

connectNotify()
customEvent()
defaultAction(self, actionScope: str) → QgsAction

Each scope can have a default action. This will be saved in the project file.

New in version 3.0.

disconnectNotify()
doAction(self, actionId: QUuid, feature: QgsFeature, context: QgsExpressionContext)

Does the action using the expression engine to replace any embedded expressions in the action definition.

Parameters:
  • actionId – action id
  • feature – feature to run action for
  • context – expression context to evaluate expressions under
doActionFeature(self, actionId: QUuid, feature: QgsFeature, defaultValueIndex: int = 0, scope: QgsExpressionContextScope = QgsExpressionContextScope())

Does the given action.

Parameters:
  • actionId – action id
  • feature – feature to run action for
  • defaultValueIndex – index of the field to be used if the action has a $currfield placeholder.
  • scope – expression context scope to add during expression evaluation

Note

available in Python bindings as doActionFeature

isSignalConnected()
layer(self) → QgsVectorLayer

Returns the layer

readXml(self, layer_node: QDomNode) → bool

Reads the actions in in XML format

receivers()
removeAction(self, actionId: QUuid)

Remove an action by its id.

New in version 3.0.

sender()
senderSignalIndex()
setDefaultAction(self, actionScope: str, actionId: QUuid)

Each scope can have a default action. This will be saved in the project file.

New in version 3.0.

timerEvent()
writeXml(self, layer_node: QDomNode) → bool

Writes the actions out in XML format