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<p class="MsoNormal">OK. I am new to QGIS, but not so new to GIS
in general.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Using 2.14.7 <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Essen</st1:place></st1:city>
and working through the QGIS-2.14-UserGuide-en.pdf</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and a tutorial that I found on the web
(Treglia_QGIS_Tutorial_2_12.pdf)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have 3 problems (so far!)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>When
setting
Relations (in the Project Properties) and creating a new </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Relation with a name but nothing else, QGIS
throws a dump
(30+ meg)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and sometimes simply quits at that time.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Getting past this, so far I haven’t been able
to see
anything useful with</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">this feature.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Occasionally,
when
attempting to set symbology properties for a </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Polygon shape file, QGIS starts treating the
shape file like
a LINE shape.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even though it is a Polygon, only allowing
line type
symbology. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It also</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">does NOT display anything of the data while
doing this. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am certain that it is a Polygon;<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>for a while it did display
the layer and</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">allowed me to set a fill color.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Additionally, it allowed me to make a data
column and fill
it with $area,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">which I assume that it would not allow if it
was an unclosed
line.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The only work-around that I can find is to
remove the
offending layer</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and to bring it back into the project. <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If you have already placed in
into</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the Print Composer, this is more than a
little inconvenient.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Using
the Print Composer,
I built a map, then built an inset map to </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">show the big picture.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>When I attempted to export the composition, as </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">image, pdf or jpg it seems to refresh all of
the maps on the
page.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>This</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">makes it impossible to create the composition
a single page
production</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">map.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have not found any work-around for this.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This last item, with no work-around, is a
show stopper.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alan</p>
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