Andrea,
Thank you for the clarification and the work around!
Regards,

Richard



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From: Qgis-user <qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of Andrea 
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1.       If I use the option [Create temporary Layer] it produces a Singlepart 
Geometry as Expected, If I save the output to a File, the resultant geometry is 
stated as Polygon (MultiPolygon) Its the same for Linestrings also.

Hi Richard,
as explained (also by me) in the linked issue report [1], the line (PolyLine) 
and polygon (Polygon) ESRI Shapefile layer types are actually multi-part layer 
types which can store both multi-part geometries with only one part and 
multi-part geometries with more than one part.
Only the point layer type has two different ESRI Shapefile layer types: the 
ESRI Shapefile Point type (which is a single-part type and can store only 
single-part geometries) and the ESRI Shapefile MultiPoint type (which is a 
multi-part type and can store multi-part geometries both with only one part and 
with more than one part).

Please see the ESRI Shapefile Technical Description [2].

If you want to check that a line (PolyLine) and polygon (Polygon) ESRI 
Shapefile layer imported in QGIS contains features with only 1 part, you need 
to check the number of part for each feature, for example using the 
num_geometries function [3] in the field calculator.

Best regards.

Andrea Giudiceandrea

[1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/50720
[2] https://www.esri.com/Library/Whitepapers/Pdfs/Shapefile.pdf/
[3] 
https://docs.qgis.org/3.22/en/docs/user_manual/expressions/functions_list.html#num-geometries
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