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<font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I have 199
point shapefiles of water depths that I would like to display
and edit using QGIS. Since all of these shapefiles are in one
geographic area, I would like the symbology to be the same for
all the files, but don't want to point & click to setup the
symbology 199 times! (Each will have 10-20 identical colors per
file based on water depth.) I thought maybe I could combine
these shapefiles into a "group", then set the symbology for the
entire group at one time. <br>
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I don't know if this will work because I haven't been able to
group the layers yet. According to
qgis-1.6.0_user_guide_en.pdf, "layers can be grouped in the
legend window by adding a layer group and dragging layers into
the group." I can right-click and create the group, but I
cannot drag anything into it. The files always end up above or
below the new group in the legend window. <br>
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Am I missing something in the procedure to populate the group
and would this even work for changing symbology? Is there a
better way to change the symbology for 199 files at one time?
I'm not afraid to edit the .qml/.qgs files, but this will also
be tedious for 199 files!<br>
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sans-serif">I am running QGIS 1.6.0 on a Slackware 13.1 system.
(I have also tried this with revision 15388 with the same
results.)</font></font><br>
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Thanks,<br>
Jim<br>
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