Whitebox Workflows QGIS Plugin

In addition to its intuitive Python application programming interface (API), Whitebox Workflows is also accessible from a custom QGIS plugin. This plugin provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for WbW. The plugin is freely available (GPL licensed) from the QGIS plugin repository. You can use the built-in ‘Manage and Install Plugins’ QGIS menu item to easily install the Whitebox Workflows plugin. Best of all, the plugin will automatically install the Whitebox Workflows library for you and so it will be ready for you to use immediately without any need for further configuration.

With the QGIS WbW plugin, you may access all of the functionality of the WbW library through intuitive custom tool dialog boxes, each with extensive integrated help documentation.

If you have purchased a license for WbW Pro, you can easily access the WbW Pro functions in the QGIS Whitebox Workflows plugin. All of the Pro-tier tools are grouped within a single tool folder called 'WbW Pro (License required)'. You will be able to use these tools if you have a valid node-locked license for WbW Pro installed on your machine. If you have not registered your WbW Pro license on the desktop on which you are running QGIS, you may also use your floating-license ID to access your license by specifying it in the WbW QGIS plugin settings (Settings => Options... => Processing => Providers => Whitebox Workflows => Floating License ID).

Known Issues

Some users have reported issues running WbW tools when using the temporary file output option in QGIS. This is often caused by the fact that the default file format for temporary files created by QGIS are often unsupported by Whitebox. For example, the QGIS default vector format is often a GeoPackage (*.gpkg), which Whitebox does not support. To resolve this problem, either change the settings for the default file formats in QGIS or specify a named output for WbW tools rather than using the default temporary file behaviour of the software. A list of the supported file formats can be found here.