[Qgis-user] manual vs auto labeling

[Bernd Vogelgesang]

The information which labels should be show must be stored somewhere.
Since a while, QGIS has the ability to store such settings in virtual
column which can be created by

Layer properties -> Labels -> Rendering -> Label options -> Data defined
-> Show label -> check the box on "Store data in the project"

This will add a new column to the layer with the name
"auxiliary_storage_labeling_show". This column is not part of your
vector file, but will be stored within the project file.
When the layer is used outside of the project, this information is lost.

It is a boolean column, expecting 1 for show label and 0 for not show label.
Open the attribute table, make it editable, select the label column and
enter 0 and hit "Update all" button to hide all labels by default.

Now when selecting chosen features to for labels to be shown, switch to
the attribute table, select the label column, enter 1 and hit "Update
selected"

I don't know if this explanation is entirely complete, but it's a start ;)

Cheers,

Bernd

So when you now select features, open the attribute table, make it
editable, select the label column

Am 28.03.20 um 15:21 schrieb Madry, Scott:
> Hello, all, and thank you for all you do for the QGIS community.
>
> I am posting a question from a colleague in Sweden. Sorry, don’t have more details than this. Perhaps someone has an answer?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Madry
>
> In the old 3.x version of Esri ArcView there was an easy-to-use labeling tool. By activating it I could first set up which attribute table column to use for labels, and then just click on desired objects in the map, and a label would appear on them, and them only. In the later ArcMap this feature was removed, and I have not found anything similar in Qgis either.
>
> When labeling features in a map every object gets a label via the layers properties, and I must remove all unwanted ones manually, which can be a huge job, not to mention tedious... It had been very easy to instead just mark the ones I want labeled, as in ArcView 3.x. Of course I am not sure if it's me who simply has not found that function in Qgis, but colleagues of mine have not found it either, so... is there such a function? ;-)
>
> Thanks, Stefan N.
>
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