[QGIS-Developer] Rotate or Offset Point symbol: how do they work? Or are they broken?

[Denis Rouzaud]

I think also it should, the expressions are supposed to be tested for this.

Le mar. 23 oct. 2018 à 07:11, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> a
écrit :

> Hi Harrissou,
>
> I would report it as a bug. I would also expect that an expression with
> just the field in it would work.
>
> Andreas
>
> On 2018-10-23 12:58, DelazJ wrote:
>
> OK. Like usual, it's when you send the message that you get the answer by
> your own. :)
>
> The problem is an underlying issue where the expresssion "myfield" seems
> to not be the same as "myfield" field ie, instead of selecting the field
> from the data-defined "Field type" menu, I was mechanically opening the
> data-defined "Edit..." expression dialog and selecting the same field. The
> field values are applied to rotation but it's not recognized as a field the
> tool could update.
>
> Should I report a bug or is it intended/known limitation?
>
> Regards,
> Harrissou
>
> Le mar. 23 oct. 2018 à 12:52, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> Hi,
>> Thanks, Nyall.
>>
>> Le mar. 23 oct. 2018 à 03:06, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 03:17, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> > Any clue on how the "Rotate Point symbol" or "Offset Point symbol"
>>> digitizing tools are expected to work? The docs [0] seems wrong (or
>>> broken?) and whatever I try (including creating a field named "rotation"),
>>> I get a "The selected point does not have a rotation (or an offset)
>>> attribute set." message. And no help on how I could set this attribute...
>>>
>>
>> Works fine here. I just data define link it over to an appropriate
>>> field (numeric for rotation, string for offset), and then the tools
>>> work as described.
>>>
>> Exactly what I did for the rotate tool. The And doing it again changes
>> nothing:
>> - I thought it had to do with temporary layer, hence switched to shp :
>> fail
>> - swithed field type from integer to double: nothing
>> - I thought it was because i had not saved the file yet (something that
>> would be related to auxiliary storage) then I saved the file: niente
>> - May be it's a matter of qgs vs qgz? Neither
>>
>> I always get that odd message about attribute not set.
>> I'm on Win 10 using master c94eefb6df. What could trigger that?
>>
>> Harrissou
>>
>>
>>> The only thing I can think of is that the docs are a little unclear here:
>>>
>>> "near the Rotation option of the highest level (preferably) of the
>>> symbol layers"
>>>
>>> This should be set at the "marker" level, not at an individual layer
>>> level. (i.e. click the "Marker" entry in the list, not "simple marker"
>>> and set the rotation there).
>>>
>>> Offset can be set at any layer and it will work.
>>>
>>> Nyall
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > [0]
>>> https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/editing_geometry_attributes.html#rotate-point-symbols
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Harrissou
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