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

[DelazJ]

OK. Done at https://issues.qgis.org/issues/20196 (maybe should I tag it as
regression, given Denis comment?)

Le mar. 23 oct. 2018 à 13:52, Denis Rouzaud <denis.rouzaud at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> 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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