Calcolatore di campi

Il pulsante mActionCalculateField Apri il calcolatore di campi presente nella tabella degli attributi permette di operare calcoli sulla base di funzioni definite e/o dei valori degli attributi esistenti, per esempio è possibile calcolare il perimetro o l’area di un poligono. Il risultato delle operazioni può essere salvato in una nuova colonna attributo oppure essere usato per aggiornare i valori di una colonna esistente.

Per poter aprire il calcolatore di campi bisogna impostare il layer in modalità di modifica (vedi figura figure_attributes_3). Nella finestra di dialogo del Calcolatore di campi è possibile scegliere se aggiornare un campo esistente, aggiornare gli elementi selezionati oppure creare un nuovo campo in cui salvare i risultati delle operazioni di calcolo.

Figure Attributes 3:

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Field Calculator nix

Per aggiungere un nuovo campo bisogna indicare il nome, il tipo di campo (intero, decimale, testo) e la larghezza. Per il tipo Numero decimale è anche possibile definire la precisione, ossia il numero di cifre dopo la virgola: ad esempio per un campo con larghezza 10 e precisione 3 si avranno 6 cifre prima della virgola, quindi la virgola ed infine 3 cifre decimali (see figure_attributes_3).

La Lista delle funzioni contiene, oltre alle funzioni, anche la lista dei campi e valori. La casella Aiuto per la funzione scelta fornisce una descrizione della funzione selezionata. La casella Espressione mostra l’espressione creata tramite la Lista delle funzioni. Gli operatori più comuni sono raggruppati nella sezione Operatori.

In the Function List, click on Fields and Values to view all attributes of the attribute table to be searched. To add an attribute to the Field calculator Expression field, double click its name in the Fields and Values list. Generally you can use the various fields, values and functions to construct the calculation expression or you can just type it into the box. To display the values of a field, you just right click on the appropriate field. You can choose between Load top 10 unique values and Load all unique values. On the right side opens the Field Values list with the unique values. To add a value to the Field calculator Expression box, double click its name in the Field Values list.

Le sezioni Operatori, Matematica, Conversioni, Stringa, Geometria e Record contengono molte funzioni. Operatori fornisce operatori matematici. Per funzioni matematiche cercare in Matematica. La sezione Conversioni permette di convertire un tipo di dato in un altro (per esempio da numero intero a numero reale).Le funzioni riguardanti le stringhe sono disponibili in Stringa. La sezione Geometria contiene le funzioni per gli oggetti geometrici mentre grazie alla sezione Record è possibile aggiungere una numerazione al dataset (esempio numero della riga). Per aggiungere una funzione alla casella Espressione cliccare su > e fare doppio click sulla funzione scelta.

A short example illustrates how the field calculator works. We want to calculate the length in km of the railroads layer from the QGIS sample dataset:

  1. Caricare in QGIS lo shapefile railroads.shp e cliccare su mActionOpenTable Apri tabella attributi.

  2. Attivare la modalità mActionToggleEditing Modifica e aprire il mActionCalculateField Calcolatore di campi.

  3. Spuntare checkbox Crea un nuovo campo per abilitare la creazione di un nuovo campo.

  4. Nominare il campo length, impostare numero decimale come tipo, 10 come larghezza e 3 come precisione.

  5. Now doubleclick on function $length in the Geometry group to add it into the Field calculator expression box.
  6. Complete the expression by typing ‘’/ 1000’’ in the Field calculator expression box and click [Ok].
  7. Adesso la nuova colonna length è presente nella tabella degli attributi.

Le funzioni disponibili sono di seguito elencate.

The field calculator Function list with the Selected Function Help , Operators and Expression menu are also available through the rule-based rendering in the Style menu of the Layer properties and the expression based labeling browsebutton in the mActionLabeling Labeling core application.

Operators

This group contains operators e.g + - *

a + b      a plus b
a - b      a minus b
a * b      a multiplied by b
a / b      a divided by b
a % b      a modulo b for example 7 % 2 = 1 -> 2 fits into 7 three times rest is 1
a ^ b      a power b for example 2^2=4 or 2^3=8
a = b      a and b are equal
a > b      a is larger than b
a < b      a is smaller than b
a <> b     a and b are not equal
a != b     a and b are not equal
a <= b     a is less than or equal to b
a >= b     a is larger than or equal to b
a ~ b      a matches the regular expression b
+ a        positive sign
- a        negative value of a
||         joins two values together into a string 'Hello' || ' world'
LIKE       returns 1 if the string matches the supplied pattern
ILIKE      returns 1 if the string matches case-insensitive the supplied
           pattern. ILIKE can be used instead of LIKE to make the match case-insensitive
IS         returns 1 if a is the same as b
OR         returns 1 when condition a or b is true
AND        returns 1 when condition a and b are true
NOT        returns 1 if a is not the same as b
column name "column name"     value of the field column name
'string'                      a string value
NULL                          null value
a IS NULL                     a has no value
a IS NOT NULL                 a has a value
a IN (value[,value])          a is below the values listed
a NOT IN (value[,value])      a is not below the values listed

Conditionals

This group contains functions to handle conditional checks in expressions.

CASE                          evaluates multiple expressions and return a result
CASE ELSE                     evaluates multiple expressions and return a result
coalesce                      returns the first non-NULL value from the expression list
regexp_match                  returns true if any part of a string matches
                              the supplied regular expression

Mathematical Functions

This group contains math functions e.g square root, sin and cos

sqrt(a)                       square root of a
abs                           returns the absolute value of a number.
sin(a)                        sinus of a
cos(a)                        cosinus of a
tan(a)                        tangens of a
asin(a)                       arcussinus of a
acos(a)                       arcuscosinus of a
atan(a)                       arcustangens of a
atan2(y,x)                    arcustangens of y/x using the signs of the two arguments
                              to determine the quadrant of the result
exp                           exponential of an value
ln                            value of the natural logarithm of the passed expression
log10                         value of the base 10 logarithm of the passed expression
log                           value of the logarithm of the passed value and base
round                         number to number of decimal places
rand                          random integer within the range specified by the minimum
                              and maximum argument (inclusive)
randf                         random float within the range specified by the minimum
                              and maximum argument (inclusive)
max                           largest value in a set of values
min                           smallest value in a set of values
clamp                         restricts an input value to a specified range
scale_linear                  transforms a given value from an input domain to an output
                              range using linear interpolation
scale_exp                     transforms a given value from an input domain to an output
                              range using an exponential curve
floor                         rounds a number downwards
ceil                          rounds a number upwards
$pi                           pi as value for calculations

Conversions

This group contains functions to convert on data type to another e.g string to integer, integer to string.

toint                        converts a string to integer number
toreal                       converts a string to real number
tostring                     convert number to string
todatetime                   convert a string into Qt data time type
todate                       convert a string into Qt data type
totime                       convert a string into Qt time type
tointerval                   converts a string to a interval type. Can be used to take days,
                             hours, month, etc off a date

Date and Time Functions

This group contains functions for handling date and time data.

$now       current date and time
age        difference between two dates
year       extract the year part from a date, or the number of years from a Interval
month      extract the month part from a date, or the number of months from a Interval
week       extract the week number from a date, or the number of weeks from a Interval
day        extract the day from a date, or the number of days from a Interval
hour       extract the hour from a datetime or time, or the number
           of hours from a Interval
minute     extract the minute from a datetime or time, or the number
           of minutes from a Interval
second     extract the second from a datetime or time, or the number
           of minutes from a Interval

String Functions

This group contains functions that operate on strings e.g replace, convert to upper case.

lower         convert string a to lower case
upper         convert string a to upper case
title         converts all words of a string to title case (all words lower case
              with leading capital letter)
trim          removes all leading and trailing whitespace (spaces, tabs, etc) from a string
length        length of string a
replace       returns a string with the the supplied string replaced
regexp_replace(a,this,that)  returns a string with the supplied regular expression replaced
regexp_substr    returns the portion of a string which matches a supplied regular expression
substr(*a*,from,len)         returns a part of a string
concat        concatenates several strings to one
strpos        returns the index of a regular expression in a string
left          returns a substring that contains the n leftmost characters of the string
right         returns a substring that contains the n rightmost characters of the string
rpad          returns a string with supplied width padded using the fill character
lpad          returns a string with supplied width padded using the fill character
format        formats a string using supplied arguments
format_number   returns a number formatted with the locale separator for thousands.
                Also truncates the number to the number of supplied places
format_date   formats a date type or string into a custom string format

Color Functions

This group contains functions for manipulating colors.

color_rgb       returns a string representation of a color based on its red, green,
                and blue components
color_rgba      returns a string representation of a color based on its red, green,
                blue, and alpha (transparency) components
ramp_color      returns a string representing a color from a color ramp
color_hsl       returns a string representation of a color based on its hue,
                saturation, and lightness attributes
color_hsla      returns a string representation of a color based on its hue, saturation,
                lightness and alpha (transparency) attributes
color_hsv       returns a string representation of a color based on its hue,
                saturation, and value attributes
color_hsva      returns a string representation of a color based on its hue, saturation,
                value and alpha (transparency) attributes
color_cmyk      returns a string representation of a color based on its cyan, magenta,
                yellow and black components
color_cmyka     returns a string representation of a color based on its cyan, magenta,
                yellow, black and alpha (transparency) components

Geometry Functions

This group contains functions that operate on geometry objects e.g length, area.

xat              retrieves a x coordinate of the current feature
yat              retrieves a y coordinate of the current feature
$area            returns the area size of the current feature
$length          returns the area size of the current feature
$perimeter       returns the perimeter length of the current feature
$x               returns the x coordinate of the current feature
$y               returns the y coordinate of the current feature
$geometry        returns the geometry of the current feature. Can be used
                 for processing with other functions.
geomFromWKT      returns a geometry created from a Well-Known Text (WKT) representation.
geomFromGML      returns a geometry from a GML representation of geometry
bbox
disjoint         returns 1 if the Geometries do not share any space together
intersects       returns 1 if the geometries spatially intersect
                 (share any portion of space) and 0 if they don't
touches          returns 1 if the geometries have at least one point in common,
                 but their interiors do not intersect
crosses          returns 1 if the supplied geometries have some, but not all,
                 interior points in common.
contains         returns true if and only if no points of b lie in the exterior of a,
                 and at least one point of the interior of b lies in the interior of a
overlaps         returns 1 if the Geometries share space, are of the same dimension,
                 but are not completely contained by each other.
within           returns 1 if the geometry a is completely inside geometry b
buffer           returns a geometry that represents all points whose distance
                 from this geometry is less than or equal to distance
centroid         returns the geometric center of a geometry
convexHull       returns the convex hull of a geometry. It represents the
                 minimum convex geometry that encloses all geometries within the set
difference       returns a geometry that represents that part of geometry a that
                 does not intersect with geometry a
distance         returns the minimum distance (based on spatial ref) between
                 two geometries in projected units
intersection     returns a geometry that represents the shared portion
                 of geometry a and geometry b
symDifference    returns a geometry that represents the portions of a and b
                 that do not intersect
combine          returns the combination of geometry a and geometry b
union            returns a geometry that represents the point set union of the geometries
geomToWKT        returns the Well-Known Text (WKT) representation of the
                 geometry without SRID metadata

Record Functions

This group contains functions that operate on record identifiers.

$rownum                      returns the number of the current row
$id                          returns the feature id of the current row
$scale                       returns the current scale of the map canvas

Fields and Values

Contains a list of fields from the layer. Sample values can also be accessed via right-click.

Select the field name from the list then right-click to access context menu with options to load sample values from the selected field.