[QGIS-ZA-user] QGIS Legend Problem

[Frank Sokolic]

Hi Immo,

Which version of QGIS are you using?

Frank.

On 17/07/2017 09:48, Immo Blecher via qgis-za-user wrote:
>
> 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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