[QGIS-ZA-user] QGIS Legend Problem

[Immo Blecher]

Good Morning Everyone,

I have a geology layer with a few columns, including the 
chronostratigraphic symbol, the rock type description and, importantly, 
a colour column (String type). The values stored in the colour column 
are the HTML hex values for the colour according to the 1 : 1 000 000 
simplified geological map of South Africa.

When I open the layer and select the colour column for colouring the 
lithological units it works beautifully, but I do not get a legend for 
the composer. But if I set the Properties|Style to Categorized and then 
again select the colour from the Colour column in the table I also get 
the same nicely coloured map according to the colour column, an a 
Legend. But the Legend is wrong...it chooses random colours! What am I 
doing wrong? Is there a way to get a correct legend, also only showing 
the units which are actually on the map in the composer. I can set the 
colours manually to match the value in the colour field but that sort of 
defeats the purpose.

Thanks for your help so long,

Immo

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