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<p>The information which labels should be show must be stored
somewhere.<br>
Since a while, QGIS has the ability to store such settings in
virtual column which can be created by</p>
<p>Layer properties -> Labels -> Rendering -> Label options
-> Data defined -> Show label -> check the box on "Store
data in the project"</p>
<p>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.<br>
When the layer is used outside of the project, this information is
lost.</p>
<p>It is a boolean column, expecting 1 for show label and 0 for not
show label.<br>
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.<br>
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<p>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"<br>
<br>
I don't know if this explanation is entirely complete, but it's a
start ;)<br>
<br>
Cheers,</p>
<p>Bernd<br>
</p>
<p>So when you now select features, open the attribute table, make
it editable, select the label column<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 28.03.20 um 15:21 schrieb Madry,
Scott:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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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