[Qgis-user] Themes, visibility, layout, report, atlas and Layer ID vs Layer name

[Alexandre Neto]

Hi,

Actually, in the past, most things depended solely on layer names. As
Charles mentioned this posed lots of problems when there were layers with
the same name.

Maybe I did not understood the difficulty that you are facing, but if you
need to swap layers, instead of loading a new layer and remove the old one,
you can simply use the change data source functionality to change the
source of UL our data, this will keep your layer id intact. Besides, even
if the layer attributes are different, as long as the ones used by atlas,
styles, etc are kept, every should keep working fine.

Besides the change data source option on each layer context menu, you can
also use the change data source plugin for when you want to change too many
layers.

Best regards,

Alexandre Neto
User Support
www.qcooperative.net

A quinta, 19/08/2021, 20:58, Jésahel Benoist <djes1975 at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Le jeu. 19 août 2021 à 21:34, Charles Dixon-Paver <charles at kartoza.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Maybe a better discussion to be having is "can we make it possible to
>> manually edit layer ids", but i think that will probably be dependant on
>> the existing QEPs like
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/76
>>
>>>
> Thank you for this reference. I'm not so surprised that the team has
> already worked on this change. There's something to do, maybe without going
> so far...
>
>
>
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