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<p>Hi Larissa and others,</p>
<p>In my opinion, this button should be removed from QGIS. The normal workflow is, that you change an item's property and the change refreshes the display of the concerned item automatically, without having to press the refresh button.</p>
<p>It is only here to work around bugs, like the recently fixed bug described here: <a href="https://issues.qgis.org/issues/21624">https://issues.qgis.org/issues/21624</a> that involves update of item position and size defined by an expression, after a change in layout format or orientation.</p>
<p>Another issue the refresh button may help fix, are layer redraws when network requests are unsuccessful. In such a case one could refresh the rendering of the map. Or in case you change the symbology in the main QGIS window and want to see the updates immediately without having to zoom/pan or change an item.</p>
<p>@Nyall: what are your thoughts on the refresh button?</p>
<p>Greetings,<br />Andreas</p>
<p id="reply-intro">On 2019-03-29 15:25, Larissa Junek wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Hello guys,</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">I'm dealing with the chapter "Laying out the maps" at the moment.</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">I'd like to have information about the "refresh view" feature.</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">What is an unconsistent state when using the print layout? From the</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">technical point of view:</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">what does this button do in detail?</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Actually my colleagues at the Town of Hannover start working with QGIS.</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">They would like to have the map items to be updated through this button.</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Everyone wonders what they can do with this button and find it rather</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">unuseful.</span><br /><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Cheers, Larissa</span><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;">Qgis-community-team mailing list for organizing community resources such as documentation, translation etc..</span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="mailto:Qgis-community-team@lists.osgeo.org" rel="noreferrer">Qgis-community-team@lists.osgeo.org</a></span><br /><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-community-team</a></span></div>
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