Add an option to copy and paste widget configuration settings

[ponceta]

Feature description

Inspired by --- copy / paste symbol --- copy / paste style :

• Add an option to copy and paste widget configuration settings

Scope :

• widget type
• constraints
• default values
• strategy
• editable
• reuse last value
• display
• more?

Avoid :

• Alias

Exceptions :

• Field does not accept such widget / configuration

Additional context

Widget configurations are valued with more and more options, we should ease the maintenance of these configuration via copy paste tools like we did a few years ago with copy paste style.

Uses cases

1. Between similar fields configuration (dates, value lists, Not NULL values, ...)
   (2. Between projects)

[ponceta]

@3nids does it sounds like a good idea? Feasible or with a huge complexity?

[andreasneumann]

@ponceta - are you thinking about all widgets together for the whole layer (I think this is already possible) or one or more selected individual widgets?

Probably the latter?

[ponceta]

My particular exemple is that one widget configuration is the same for several fields and I have to make exactly the same clics and configuration so my widgets looks the same. It is then easy to miss a click and it is very time consuming.

Here i have fk_dataowner, fk_provider, fk_owner, fk_operator all referincing an organisation table and having exactly the same widget configuration. And this is replicated to some other layers.

[andreasneumann]

So you want to copy widget configurations within the same layer - not to another layer - right?

[ponceta]

So you want to copy widget configurations within the same layer - not to another layer - right?

Yes! (but if it is in your clipboard you could be able to paste it on any other field (including a field in another layer or in another project))

[3nids]

You can already to this by selecting the editor widget category from copy/paste style. This would reuse what is possible (fields with the same names)

[andreasneumann]

You can already to this by selecting the editor widget category from copy/paste style. This would reuse what is possible (fields with the same names)

@3nids - I believe this is a different thing. This would be to copy widget configs from one layer to another, but if I understand it correctly, @ponceta wants to copy widget configuration from one field to another within the same layer.