[Qgis-user] QGIS Attribute Table Not Displaying Data

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Lee Hachadoorian
<Lee.Hachadoorian+L at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Andre Joost <andre+joost at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
>>> Further down the same panel, I have a dropdownbox "Behaviour of Attribute
>>> table" (or whatever it is in your language).
>>>
>>> After switching to "Show All Objects", I see them in the table.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> André Joost
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Etienne Tourigny
> <etourigny.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> confirmed.  Lee probably changed that setting without knowing it -
>> funky things can happen with mouse scrolling sometimes - you
>> inadvertently scroll down a combo box when you meant to scroll the
>> page.
>>
>> Etienne
>
> Thanks so much, André and Etienne. That is exactly right. The dropdown
> was set to "Show selected features". And, yes, I was using the scroll
> wheel to scroll down the panel, so that must be how I unintentionally
> changed the setting.
>
> Two follow-up remarks:
>
> First, I did a complete uninstall, using purge, then deleted the empty
> $HOME/.qgis anyway. The setting persisted through this. Now that I
> know what the problem is, I double-checked.

as I said - configuration settings are in  $HOME/.config/QuantumGIS/QGIS.conf

but in windows they are buried in the windows registry (that's how QT
handles settings).

>
> Set "Show selected features"
> sudo apt-get remove --purge qgis
> sudo apt-get autoremove #removes all the dependencies
> rm ~/.qgis
> sudo apt-get install qgis
>
> I confirm that the configuration folder does not exist. The
> configuration folder gets recreated at first launch of QGIS. I look at
> the Options, and Attribute table behavior is still set to "Show
> selected features".
>
> Second, there is one (too me) weird thing about the behavior of "Show
> selected features". When set, the attribute table can only display
> from the universe of features *selected when the attribute table is
> first opened*. If you then change the selection (using the select tool
> or using Invert Selection) the selected features will be highlighted
> on the map, but will not be updated in the attribute table. Invert
> selection immediately yields an empty feature table because the
> inverted selection obviously includes only features that were not
> selected when the attribute table was opened. I don't know if this is
> intended behavior, but it is very different from the "Show selected
> only" checkbox at the bottom of the attribute table panel. When that
> checkbox is on, the attribute table displays the selection as a subset
> of the entire dataset. If a subset of records appear in the table
> because of the "Show selected features" setting, and then you check
> "Show selected only", selected records will appear in the attribute
> table only if they were in the original selection when the attribute
> table was opened.
>
> Thanks for the assistance.
> --Lee
>
> --
> Lee Hachadoorian
> Asst Professor of Geography, Dartmouth College
> http://freecity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/