[QGIS-ZA-user] QGIS Legend Problem

Frank Sokolic sokolic at worldonline.co.za
Mon Jul 17 05:35:58 PDT 2017


I've just tested this on QGIS Master and get exactly the same result you 
describe. I also tried rule-based rendering but the colours don't get 
carried through to the legend either.

I wonder if this is a bug?

Frank.

On 17/07/2017 14:23, Immo Blecher wrote:
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> Sorry Frank, I realised later that I did not send that info. Here it is:
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> QGIS version
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> 2.18.10
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> QGIS code revision
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> 59e0f78 <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commit/59e0f78>
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> Compiled against Qt
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> 4.8.7
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> Running against Qt
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> 4.8.7
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> Compiled against GDAL/OGR
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> 1.11.3
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> Running against GDAL/OGR
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> 1.11.3
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> Compiled against GEOS
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> 3.5.0-CAPI-1.9.0
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> Running against GEOS
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> 3.5.0-CAPI-1.9.0 r4084
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> PostgreSQL Client Version
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> 9.5.2
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> SpatiaLite Version
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> 4.3.0a
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> QWT Version
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> 5.2.3
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> PROJ.4 Version
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> 492
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> QScintilla2 Version
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> 2.9.1
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> And I run it under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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> Thanks
> Immo
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> On 17/07/2017 14:19, Frank Sokolic via qgis-za-user wrote:
>> Hi Immo,
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>> Which version of QGIS are you using?
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>> Frank.
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>> 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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