[Enhancement] Adding new identical features in a "multi-duplicating"-mode

[koenigherford]

It would be great to have the abiltiy to "multi-duplicate" a feature:
Now you can select a feature and duplicate it just once. But if you have -for example - a lot of identical points (with a lot of attributes) you have to do the steps of
1.1) select a feature
1.2) activate editing-form
1.3) select action-menu
1.4) select "duplicate feature"
1.5) select additional location
again and again. This can be boring.

With the new feature you will only

1. select a feature
2. activate editing-form
3. select action-menu
4. select "multi-duplicate feature"
5. select additional location#1
6. select additional location#2
   7...) select additional location#...
   x) select additional location#x

Instead of wasting time to repeat steps 1...4 every new feature - they only have to be done once.. This reduces digitizing-time in such cases about 80 % (especially in series of points).

[m-kuhn]

I think the final use case for this is similar to #2089, could these two issues be merged into one?

[koenigherford]

#2089 seems to have the focus on copying and pasting / transferring attribute-data of one selected feature to other existing features.

My enhancement proposal is a little bit simmilar but it creates completely new features based on the selected-feature-template instead applying just the attributes to existing features.

The proposed behavior it is nearly the same as the existing "duplicate feature" mode. In my suggestion QField just does not fall back into the "select the to be editing feature"-menu but stays in the "select a (the) new positions for the new features"-mode.

Yes of course by creating one or more new geometry(s) the attributes of the template-feature have to be transferred to the new feature(s) too - which is the intersection to #2089

[m-kuhn]

Template features were also discussed in #2089 (comment), and also there seen as "addition" and not "alternative" 👍

Other question: do you have a preference between "taking existing features as templates" vs "having a list of predefined template features (from qgis)" and maybe "adding an existing feature to template features"?

[koenigherford]

In my workflow i would prefer "taking existing features as templates".
Workflow in the field:

1. I will see a row of identical features in the field, which have to be digitzed (mostly point-features).
2. I will digitize the first one of them with all attributes
3. I will select this one (or perhaps one which was already existing in the-original-export-porject) and copy it to all other relevant positions in the map and close multicopy-mode afterwards