Thanks Andrea. I'll create them.
These are not big issues and easy to work around as a user.
I agree with you this new embedded layers feature is awesome and for
little mapping projects like Ark in the Park they are very useful as I
have my layout already ready and just need to add what i want to plots:
bird territories or past control results or ..... Also if something in
the layout changes (new track, pest control grid altered) I only need to
modify the 'master' map and it is propagated to all the other maps.
Worth a try!
Kind regards
Laurence
ARK IN THE PARK Volunteer Co-Ordinator
Cascades Ranger Station
Falls Road, Waitakere
Phone: (09) 810 7014
www.arkinthepark.org.nz www.forestandbird.org.nz
On 9/03/2017 10:58 p.m., Neumann, Andreas wrote:
Hi Laurence,
I can confirm both issues.
Embedded groups show empty (without the layers, only the groups are
displayed) in QGIS 3 and they are stylable in the styling dock in 2.18
when they shouldn't be stylable.
However, if your restyle embedded layers in the styling dock, they
are, of course not saved back to the original layers. This would be
dangerous and probably unwanted in most cases.
The styling dock is fairly new and probably the devs where not aware
about the embedded layers feature.
Can you please issue bug reports for both issues?
Embedded layers and groups are probably not used that much in the
wild, but I find them incredibly useful. It is one of my favourite
QGIS feature and saves you tons of work if you can re-use background
layers from other projects, while still being able to identify these
layers or snap to them.
Unfortunately, many users and devs are not aware of this feature and
it doesn't get much attention.
Thanks,
Andreas
On 2017-03-08 22:10, Laurence Béchet wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use the embed layers and groups feature.
I'm running on Windows8 pro 64bits.
I have created a new project and I am loading a group of layers which
are my background (streams, lakes, etc ..) in a main project.
QGIS 2.18.4 QGIS code revision 59c1d21:
I get the group loaded nicely. As expected, I cannot access the
properties if I double click on the layer. However, if I have the
layer styling panel open, I can change the style ... I have not
checked what happens to the main project. Question 1: Is this normal?
QGIS version 2.99.0-Master QGIS code revision 5a543e4:
The group appears in the layers panel but none of the layers are
displayed. Question 2: Is this normal?
Kind regards
Laurence Bechet
ARK IN THE PARK Volunteer Co-Ordinator
Cascades Ranger Station
Falls Road, Waitakere
Phone: (09) 810 7014
www.arkinthepark.org.nz www.forestandbird.org.nz
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