[Qgis-user] New user problems

[DelazJ]

Hi,

welcome to QGIS! Comments inline.

2016-12-08 0:56 GMT+01:00 G A Sansom <gasansom at npoint.net>:

> OK. I am new to QGIS, but not so new to GIS in general.
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> Using 2.14.7 Essen and working through the QGIS-2.14-UserGuide-en.pdf
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> and a tutorial that I found on the web (Treglia_QGIS_Tutorial_2_12.pdf)
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> I have 3 problems (so far!)
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> 1)  When setting Relations (in the Project Properties) and creating a new
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> Relation with a name but nothing else, QGIS throws a dump (30+ meg)
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> and sometimes simply quits at that time.
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> Getting past this, so far I haven’t been able to see anything useful with
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> this feature.
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Maybe should you read
http://docs.qgis.org/2.14/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/attribute_table.html#creating-one-to-many-relations
to see what the relations are designed for.


> 2)  Occasionally, when attempting to set symbology properties for a
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> Polygon shape file, QGIS starts treating the shape file like a LINE shape.
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> Even though it is a Polygon, only allowing line type symbology.  It also
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> does NOT display anything of the data while doing this.
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> I am certain that it is a Polygon;  for a while it did display the layer
> and
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> allowed me to set a fill color.
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> Additionally, it allowed me to make a data column and fill it with $area,
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> which I assume that it would not allow if it was an unclosed line.
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> The only work-around that I can find is to remove the offending layer
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> and to bring it back into the project.  If you have already placed in into
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> the Print Composer, this is more than a little inconvenient.
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Weird! No idea


> 3)  Using the Print Composer, I built a map, then built an inset map to
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> show the big picture.  When I attempted to export the composition, as
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> image, pdf or jpg it seems to refresh all of the maps on the page.  This
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> makes it impossible to create the composition a single page production
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> map.
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> I have not found any work-around for this.
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You can fix the content of each map item by checking "Lock layers for map
items" in its properties tab or creating a layer preset.
See
http://docs.qgis.org/2.14/en/docs/user_manual/print_composer/composer_items/composer_map.html#main-properties

HTH,
Harrissou

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> This last item, with no work-around, is a show stopper.
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> Alan
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