[Qgis-user] Single label on multipart polygon

[Alex Mandel]

Yes, the plan is to finish porting all features from the "old" labeling
engine to the new one and then remove the "old". In QGIS 1.8 or 2.0 the
"old" should be gone and replaced.

Thanks,
Alex

On 02/03/2012 12:46 PM, Vivien Deparday wrote:
> 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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