[Qgis-user] Single label on multipart polygon

[Vivien Deparday]

That works, thanks ! I was wondering why there were two ways to access 
the labelling options that seemed to be related but not really. I 
supposed it is already on the road map to consolidate the two.

Vivien

On 02/03/2012 03:31 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 02/03/2012 12:21 PM, Vivien Deparday wrote:
>> Hello:
>> I have a polygon layer (a shapefile) with several features that have
>> multiple parts (administrative zones that include landmass and numerous
>> islands). When I enable the Labels on it, I end up with the same label
>> repeated many times for the features that have multiple parts.
>> I would like to have only one label for each feature otherwise the
>> labels are not legible as they overlap each others.
>>
>> I found the following option in the advanced labelling features: "Label
>> every part of multi-part features" but this didn't change anything (even
>> though it sounds like this would do the opposite of what I would like so
>> it should be good by default)?.
>>
>> Am I missing something? Is it an issue with my shapefile? or should I
>> report a bug?
>>
>> I have Qgis 1.7.3 on ubuntu.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Vivien
> Vivien,
>
> Turn off the current labeling you have and only used the Advanced
> labeling tool. I know its not clear but the labeling in the properties
> of a layer and the advanced labeling are completely separate so you have
> to make sure to use on or the other and not both.
>
> Make sure to ->not<- check that box and by default you should only get
> one label per record.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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