[Qgis-user] Map Composer and Attributes from a layer

[Randal Hale]

That does give me a workaround of sorts....

Is there any way to pull from a table and place the information in 
composer - a table that isn't being used by Atlas?

.....But Alexandre's idea might give me a work around in the meantime.


On 12/07/2014 01:20 PM, Alexandre Neto wrote:
> Hello Randal,
>
> You are looking for the atlas generation feature.
>
> In the map composer go to the atlas tab and set your layer as atlas 
> coverage layer. (Don't forget to turn atlas control on your map item 
> properties). From that point on, you can use the coverage layer's 
> attributes in labels usig the expression builder, or simply set the 
> label as:
>
> [%my_column%]
>
> Hope I helped.
>
> Alexandre Neto
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Randal Hale 
> <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com 
> <mailto:rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is it possible to insert an attribute into map composer? I'm
>     thinking it is but I'm stumbling just a bit.
>
>     I have a layer that will change through time. I want to insert the
>     name of the polygon into map composer with the area as part of
>     some text at the bottom of the map. I am thinking I use the
>     getFeature and/or the attribute function to insert an expression -
>     but I'm not entirely sure.
>
>     I'm pulling the data from postgis so I can create a view with just
>     that one polygon if that helps.
>
>     Thanks so much - not that it probably matters but Ubuntu 14.04
>     QGIS 2.6.1
>
>     Randy
>
>
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