[Qgis-user] Selecting Multiple Layers in a Single Click

[Charles Dixon-Paver]

No, it's not a single click operation (qgis has no way to know how many
layers you want to choose). But you can use the "shift" and "ctrl"
techniques I mentioned before and click the "toggle selection" to simplify
checking multiple layers in those interfaces.

I often use the "select all" option and use the CTRL+click to deselect
unwanted layers. That makes it quicker when selecting the majority of large
layer collections.

On Fri, 20 Aug 2021, 22:48 krishna Ayyala, <ayyalakrishna at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charles,
> Thanks a lot for your reply. Is it possible to select the first four
> layers in a Single click in the following window?
>
> Regards.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 2:34 PM Charles Dixon-Paver <charles at kartoza.com>
> wrote:
>
>> You can select multiple layers by selecting the first layer and holding
>> SHIFT, then all the other layers between those two selected should also be
>> selected.
>>
>> You can hold the CTRL button and click a layer to toggle it's selected
>> status to add or remove it from the selection.
>>
>> You can then add them to a group or drag their order on the ToC, but to
>> toggle all layer visibility you will need to use the hide/ show selected
>> features option from the layer visibility drop down in the layer panel.
>>
>> To my knowledge you can also only apply operations such as pasting of
>> layer styles to an individual layer,  so the option will be applied to the
>> layer which you clicked to being up the context options and not all layers
>> in the selection.
>>
>> Also, only the last layer selected will be marked as the currently
>> "active" layer when using operations like iface.activeLayer() from pyqgis.
>>
>> On Fri, 20 Aug 2021, 22:22 krishna Ayyala, <ayyalakrishna at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I have 8 layers as below. Is it possible to select the first four layers
>>> in a Single click without having to manually select each layer?
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> [image: image.png]
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