<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Tony</div><div>Some thoughts to start with:</div><div>Does the student:</div><div>- have the correct write access to the data?</div><div>-  is the field in the correct format?</div><div>- is the field hidden or a virtual/temporary field?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Em<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 02:51, Diaz, Tony A. via QGIS-User <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg1990490602689511211">





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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello, a student of ours is trying to use the field calculator to calculate the closest point on an arbitrary line for each point in an object and append the column to the attribute table.  The calculation itself was successful as well
 as the mapping the result, but the calculations themselves are not on the attribute table.  Any ideas we can pass along to them?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Tony Diaz<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Caltech<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Pasadena, CA<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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