Harrissou Sant-anna fccfac8a6f Add/update examples using get_feature function
reinforcing the need for uniqueness, since get_feature output is unpredictable
2020-11-16 07:20:43 +10:00

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{
"name": "is_selected",
"type": "function",
"groups": ["Record and Attributes"],
"description": "Returns True if a feature is selected. Can be used with zero, one or two arguments, see below for details.",
"variants": [
{
"variant": "No parameters",
"variant_description": "If called with no parameters, the function will return true if the current feature in the current layer is selected.",
"arguments": [],
"examples": [ { "expression": "is_selected()", "returns" : "True if the current feature in the current layer is selected." } ]
},
{
"variant": "One 'feature' parameter",
"variant_description": "If called with a 'feature' parameter only, the function returns true if the specified feature from the current layer is selected.",
"arguments": [ { "arg": "feature", "description": "The feature which should be checked for selection." } ],
"examples": [ { "expression": "is_selected(@atlas_feature)", "returns": "True if the current atlas feature is selected." },
{ "expression": "is_selected(get_feature('streets', 'name', 'Main St.')))", "returns": "True if the unique named \"Main St.\" feature on the active \"streets\" layer is selected." },
{ "expression": "is_selected(get_feature_by_id('streets', 1))", "returns": "True if the feature with the id 1 on the active \"streets\" layer is selected." }
]
},
{
"variant" : "Two parameters",
"variant_description": "If the function is called with both a layer and a feature, it will return true if the specified feature from the specified layer is selected.",
"arguments": [ { "arg": "layer", "description": "The layer (its ID or name) on which the selection will be checked." }, { "arg": "feature", "description": "The feature which should be checked for selection." } ],
"examples": [ { "expression": "is_selected( 'streets', get_feature('streets', 'name', \"street_name\"))", "returns": "True if the current building's street is selected (assuming the building layer has a field named 'street_name' and the 'streets' layer has a field called 'name' with unique values)." },
{ "expression": "is_selected( 'streets', get_feature_by_id('streets', 1))", "returns": "True if the feature with the id 1 on the \"streets\" layer is selected." }
]
}
]
}