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My action

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From feature form: enter image description here

Result:

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Result: enter image description here

It's a bug? Tested with QGIS 3.28.8, 3.28.9, 3.32.2

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The selected action scopes are missing the field one.

feature will be available when you click on a single feature, including the attribute form. It has access to the feature's values.

layer works on the entire layer, so the action is available even if you haven't clicked/selected a feature and therefore you can't (easily) access a feature's value

field is used within the attribute table and can access each row's value. Right click on a row to start the action.

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  • I appreciate the clarity here. However, this does seem like a bug to me. Why shouldn't a feature-scope action have access to the underlying attributes of the feature? Further, why should the [%colname%] syntax work for field-scope actions at all - since they are triggered from a known row/column and support additional variables like field_name/field_value? This does not seem like the intended implementation.
    – OGmaps
    Commented Sep 12, 2023 at 3:39
  • After thinking about this for a few, I do see some solid use cases for the [%colname%] syntax in a field scoped action. But, I see no good reason for needing to trigger a feature scoped action from a field in the attribute table. Either way, thank you for clearing this up - I burned an hour trying to figure out what was going on.
    – OGmaps
    Commented Sep 12, 2023 at 4:04

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