[Qgis-developer] Qgis-developer Digest, Vol 94, Issue 76

[Benoît Laurent]

Le 30/08/2013 10:57, qgis-developer-request at lists.osgeo.org a écrit :
> You can only iterate over one layer in one composer, at one time, but you can
> show all the layers you want in the resulting maps.

>
> The layer that works as a iterator is define in the 'Coverage layer' in the
> Atlas tab. The zoom level is either fixed to a predefined scale, or dynamic
> set to the bound of each geometry of the Coverage layer, when the iterator
> works through the records of the Coverage layer.
That is precisely my problem. For the moment, I don't have any coverage 
layer. I would like to create it but I don't know how ? (manually ?)

>
> This feature is very powerful: Thanks goes to the sponsors and developers
> for making this available :)
It look promising indeed.


>
> I am not quite sure what you mean by: "Actually, what I wish to do is to
> capture the extent of my first shapefile layer, store it in the composer
> layer and iterate the process over the other shapefile layers."
Actually, I would like to create this composer layer.

Regards,

Benoît