On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 04:15, <rjwill...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > in QGIS 2.18 when you had selected for your layout to "follow visibility > preset" and then went to "Add layer to legend" your list of layers would be > restricted to the subset of layers that were turned on for the preset (now > called map theme). > > This does not happen in Q3.2 or the latest Q developmental version where > instead all of the layers in the project are listed. > > I love the new search dialogue built into the developmental version so that > you can quickly search for your layer to add to the legend; however, it is > still much quicker to add the relevant layers to your legend by restricting > the layers shown in the selection dialogue to those turned on in the map > theme selected to be followed (i.e., checkbox for follow map theme selected). > Usually I have lots of layers in the project that are not turned on so it can > be hard to remember what the layers are called later when I get around to > creating the legend > > Possibly this change in behaviour was introduced by design or necessitated by > some other limitation so may not even be possible to retain?
The change was intentional, as it allows layers to be added to a legend when they aren't visible in the main canvas (e.g. due to the canvas showing a different map theme, or having a layer for "legend purposes only"). I'd suggest we could satisfy both use cases by adding a checkbox "only show visible layers" to the bottom of this dialog. Do you agree? Nyall _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
