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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Ruby,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Building on the answers of the others:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">1) You may not have any geometry in your layers, so there is nothing to display in the symbology because there is no geometry type.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> a) For example if you only have an attribute table, for example the '.dbf' of a shape file, or a text file like a '.csv' file, or the text file has been imported without geometry, in which case you need to open it again.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> b) You may have done the join in reverse. You may have joined the geometry layer to the attribute/text layer. That would result in there being no geometry. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> i) Open the other properties dialog of the other layer and see if there is something in the symbology tab. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> a) If so remove the join from the first layer, and do the join from the other layer instead. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> b) adjust the symbology in whichever order you see fee it will not make a difference.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"> c) if not you may not have any geometry, so there is no spatial information to display symbology for.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">2) If you look at the top of Properties dialog do you see a drop down menu that says "No Symbols" and a line of text in the middle of the dialog that says "No symbols will be rendered for features in this layer." In that case you just need to switch the dropdown menu to your desired display type that is appropriate for the data type of the fields (see Richard's answer).</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">3) Kirk's answer is not applicable :-), since a layer with geometry but no features should still have adjustable symbology. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Thayer</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 03:00:49 PM EST, qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org <qgis-user-request@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:44:36 +0000<br></div><div dir="ltr">From: Ruby Jardine <<a href="mailto:rubyjardine16@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rubyjardine16@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">To: <a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">Subject: [Qgis-user] Symbology blank<br></div><div dir="ltr">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:FB061028-3C15-487B-B1DB-1514A1F9A944@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FB061028-3C15-487B-B1DB-1514A1F9A944@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hi, I am trying to create a standard global map on the prevalence of maternal health issues. I have added my datasets and joined them, however when I go to the ?Symbology? section to colour code the map, it is blank. Do you know why this is and how I can change this to be able to create my map. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div>
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