Repository structure

In order for the plugin to be able to read the repository correctly, the repository must have a specific structure.

Generally the structure looks like this:

Repository root
├── README (encouraged)
├── metadata.ini (required)
└── collections
    ├── [Collection1 register id] (the id string used in "collections" in metadata.ini)
    │   ├── checklists (optional, containing checklist definition JSON files)
    │   ├── expressions (optional, containing JSON files with QGIS Expressions)
    │   ├── image (optional, containing all kinds of image files)
    │   ├── models (optional, containing Processing models)
    │   ├── preview (encouraged, containing previews for the collection, referenced in metadata.ini)
    │   ├── processing (optional, containing Python Processing scripts)
    │   ├── rscripts (optional, containing R scripts)
    │   ├── style (optional, containing QML files - QGIS Layer style)
    │   ├── svg (optional, containing SVG files)
    │   ├── symbol (optional, containing symbol definition XML files)
    │   └── license file (encouraged)
    │
    ├── [Collection2 register id] (the id string used in "collections" in metadata.ini)
    │   ├── checklists (optional, containing checklist definition JSON files)
    │   ├── expressions (optional, containing JSON files with QGIS Expressions)
    │   ├── image (optional, containing all kinds of image files)
    │   ├── models (optional, containing Processing models)
    │   ├── preview (encouraged, containing previews for the collection, referenced in metadata.ini)
    │   ├── processing (optional, containing Python Processing scripts)
    │   ├── rscripts (optional, containing R scripts)
    │   ├── style (optional, containing QML files - QGIS Layer style)
    │   ├── svg (optional, containing SVG files)
    │   ├── symbol (optional, containing symbol definition XML files)
    │   └── license file (encouraged)
    │
    ├── ...
    ├── ...
    │
    └── [CollectionN register id] (the id string used in "collections" in metadata.ini)
        ├── checklists (optional, containing checklist definition JSON files)
        ├── expressions (optional, containing JSON files with QGIS Expressions)
        ├── image (optional, containing all kinds of image files)
        ├── models (optional, containing Processing models)
        ├── processing (optional, containing Python Processing scripts)
        ├── rscripts (optional, containing R scripts)
        ├── style (optional, containing QML files - QGIS Layer style)
        ├── svg (optional, containing SVG files)
        ├── symbol (optional, containing symbol definition XML files)
        └── license file (encouraged)

If the QGIS Resource Sharing plugin shall be able to make the resources available to QGIS users in a convenient way, you have to place them where the plugin expects to find them:

  • Layer style (QML) files belong in the style directory.

  • Processing models belong in the models directory.

  • Processing (Python) scripts belong in the processing directory.

  • R script (for use with the Processing R plugin) belong in in the rscripts directory.

  • Symbol XML files belong in the symbol directory. Symbol images are expected to be in the image directory and symbol SVGs are expected to be in the svg directory.

  • SVGs belong in the svg directory.

  • Images belong in the image directory.

  • Expression JSON files belong in the expressions directory.

  • Data QA Workbench checklist JSON files belong in the checklists directory.

Check the QGIS Resources Repository and this test repository for GitHub repository examples.