Quick Capture Plugin

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Hi there,

I’d like to share a plugin I’ve been working on. It creates big buttons for one-tap feature recording. The idea is for quick reporting of features where a simple ‘type’ is all that is needed. Possibly to be used dashboard-mounted if legal in your location :slight_smile:

Available here - GitHub - coastalrocket/quick_capture: qfield plugin for big button feature capture · GitHub

A small video here - https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ZTyG25pMBqYC8au4-E_lVpwvIjfMmT8/view?usp=sharing that shows the default buttons being replaced by buttons defined by a non-spatial table in the project.

It supports photo capture, though that’s a couple of more interactions - can’t be avoided i think.

Thanks to Pascal for some advice in getting Qfield running in my dev environment. Most grateful.

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@coastalrocket , that’s a super nice plugin you’re developing, thanks for sharing this with the community!

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Amazing, this would help me! How do I install it? URL to file?

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Yes, QField Settings > Manage plugins > Install plugin from URL > enter https://github.com/coastalrocket/quick_capture/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.9.zip

For ‘one tap’ capture there’s also GitHub - FeelGood-GeoSolutions/FeelGood-OneTapMeasurement: QField plugin for 1-tap-point-creation with extra features · GitHub and GitHub - 2LT-Hyakutaro/OneTapMultiFeature: QField plugin for handling one-tap-creation of various kind of features · GitHub

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im trying out your plugin. What specifics there are for the point layer? I add a point layer, with a single text atribute (lenght 10), But it shows me - No editable layers found :frowning:

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Did you select the layer from the plugin’s settings menu? Do a long press on the settings dialog to make the menu appear. You have to select a layer and a ‘type’ field - which will your text attribute.

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Ahhh my, fault was didn’t have ‘type‘ atribute. Is it possible to somewhat customize the action buttons?

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Yes, I’ve updated the instructions at GitHub - coastalrocket/quick_capture: qfield plugin for big button feature capture · GitHub

You can basically hold down the settings button to display a dialog and edit the comma-delimited types to change the capture types. If you want to add icons or change the colour you need a lookup table called ‘quick_capture_types’. There’s an example project you can inspect in the instructions.