Don't use <span style="line-height:19.7999992370605px">QgsLabel it is the old label engine and will be removed in the future.<br></span><br>- Nathan <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri Dec 05 2014 at 9:27:14 AM Tom Chadwin <<a href="mailto:tom.chadwin@nnpa.org.uk">tom.chadwin@nnpa.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> QgsLabel(layer.pendingFields()<u></u>).fields()[0].name()<br>
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That doesn't work - it gives the field at position 0, not the labelling<br>
field.<br>
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> layer.customProperty("<u></u>labeling/fieldName")<br>
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But this does work perfectly. Thank you so much.<br>
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Tom<br>
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