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    Hi,<br>
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    This thread might help you to find a workaround :<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/241213/how-to-get-a-composer-label-by-id-with-python-in-qgis">https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/241213/how-to-get-a-composer-label-by-id-with-python-in-qgis</a><br>
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Christophe
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      Le 16/03/2018 à 16:56, KOHLMANN Hannes a écrit :<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Hello!<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am facing difficulties
            trying to set the text of a  QgsLayoutItemLabel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I do something like the
            following to load a .qpt composer template and print this to
            a .png file (which works)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">path
            = "C:\\QGIS3\\apps\\qgis\\composer_templates"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">template_file
            = open(path+"\\ANSR_print_composer2.qpt")<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">template_content
            = template_file.read()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">template_file.close()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">document
            = QDomDocument()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">document.setContent(template_content)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">composition
            = QgsLayout(QgsProject.instance())<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">composition.loadFromTemplate(document,
            QgsReadWriteContext())<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">map_item
            = composition.itemById('map')<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">legend_item
            = composition.itemById('legend')<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">text_item
            = composition.itemById('textbox')<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB">QgsLayoutExporter(composition).exportToImage(
            path+"\\report.png",
            QgsLayoutExporter.ImageExportSettings())<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And now I’d like to
            modify only the text of the QgsLayoutItemLabel, which is the
            “textbox”:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoListParagraph"
          style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">     
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">I
            can move it around with setX(), setY(), but I don’t know how
            to edit the text of the label. I thought of something like
            text_item.setText() or text_item.setLabelText(), but I think
            that text_item is just an instance of QgsLayoutItem, not
            QgsLayoutItemLabel. And there I get stuck.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoListParagraph"
          style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">     
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-GB">How
            would you manually add another text label, set the main
            property etc, such that, at the end of the day, my above
            code would export a .png containing this QgsLayoutItem?<br>
            I would have begun this way: <br>
            new = QgsLayoutItemLabel(composition)<br>
            new.setText(“New label”)<br>
            But it does not quite work that way!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Would be of great help,
            if you could give me some hints on that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thank you in advance! </span><span
            style="font-family:Wingdings" lang="EN-GB">J</span><span
            lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hannes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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