[Qgis-user] Rule-based styling: Why are all levels shown?

[Nyall Dawson]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 08:59, Bernd Vogelgesang
<bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I seem to be a bit dumb.
>
> I try to set up rule-based styling for point observations which I like
> to break down for three columns.
>
> "type": observation|catch
> -- "status": unknown|juvenile|subadult|adult
> ----"gender": "unknown|male|female
>
> In my understanding of a rule based styling of e.g. type = observation,
> status = adult and gender = male, the symbol for male within adult
> within observation should be shown exclusively.
>
> Instead all three symbols for the type, the status and the gender are
> displayed over each other.
>
> I really seem to misunderstand the concept of those nested styles, cause
> actually the do not nest, but happily pile over each other.

What you need to do is edit the type and status rules, and uncheck the
"symbol" checkbox in their properties. That will make them logic only
rules which don't render any of these unwanted group symbols.

Nyall