[Qgis-developer] Atlas preview

[Nyall Dawson]

I'm going to cc in the ux list for their feedback too, since this
seems like the kind of thing that list was made for...

UX list - the previous discussion is listed below:

On 13 February 2014 21:57, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about having a warning in the setting if you don't have any map
> controlled by atlas?
>
> Or the count of map controlled by atlas?
>
>
>
> On 13. 02. 14 11:43, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
>>
>> Il 12/02/2014 21:07, Alexandre Neto ha scritto:
>>>
>>> And it is a great add-on to the the atlas.
>>>
>>> Maybe make it on by default in all maps? Or at least to the first. map
>>> added.
>>
>> that was it, thanks. I found it unclear, but I agree it's not easy to
>> improve this. Perhaps the control should be echoed also in the Atlas tab?
>> all the best.
>
>

On 13 February 2014 06:44, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 13/02/2014 3:25 am, "Alexandre Neto" <senhor.neto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Something similar happened to me the first time I tested.
>> I noticed that I needed to check the "controled by atlas" box in the map
>> item properties tab (this was not necessary in 2.0.1). After that,
>> everything worked fine.
>>
>
> This is needed now because more than one map can be atlas controlled (or,
> potentially, no maps at all if you just want label items to change between
> features). I couldn't think of any better way of exposing this to the user.
> Ideas are welcome!