feature request: Shape ID in class/filteritem

[armin.burger@…]

I would like to add a feature request as suggested by Steve:

it would sometimes be helpful to have an expression for the internal ID of
features  in a shapefile that I can use for the CLASS/FILTERITEM, just like the
[shpidx]
for templates. 

Armin

[sdlime]

Not as easy as I was hoping since the shape itself is NOT passed to the function
that does the expression evaluation. So, the index isn't available without some
code restructuring. There is a bit of a work around in that there is a mode
called INDEXQUERY that allows you to query by feature index. I think that covers
most, but not all use. I'll keep it open though...

Steve

[dmorissette]

*** Bug 290 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***