[Qgis-user] Edit disabled after filter querying a shapefile

[Bernd Vogelgesang]

Hi,
when setting filters to a layer (Properties -> General -> Provider feature  
filter), it becomes uneditable by default.
If you like to filter data and go on working with the result, you better  
not use the filter, but use the "Select by expression"-button (the yellow  
square with the curvy E in the Attributes Toolbar.
Apply the same query there as you used for the filter, but then save the  
selection to a new shapefile e.g.

In case you just like to filter out other data cause it is disturbing  
while working with the attributes table, you could apply the query there  
(left-down corner -> Advanced Filter (Expression) to just show the subset,  
while keeping all features of the layer.

Hope I caught your use case
Bernd

Am 29.02.2016, 21:27 Uhr, schrieb Roy Marsh <roymarsh11 at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I am relatively inexperienced with QGIS though I have used some of the  
> features a lot.
>
> While working through the online training manual with QGIS 2.12, I found  
> that, after filtering the shape files extracted from the >OSM exercise  
> data, the 'toggle editing' button was greyed out, and there seemed to be  
> no way to re-activate editing. However, shape >files imported directly  
> into QGIS do not have this problem.
>
> I have seen related comments in other places and apologise for the  
> inconvenience if this is a well-known problem, with an easy fix. >So how  
> do I fix it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Roy



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