Bug report #14323

Checkbox "Control feature rendering order" is not honored

Added by Sebastian Dietrich over 8 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:Severe/Regression
Assignee:-
Category:Symbology
Affected QGIS version:master Regression?:No
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:Yes Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:22311

Description

The checkbox Control feature rendering order implies the user can enable or disable the sorting by the order-by-clause shown next to it. However the order-by-clause is used regardless of the status of this checkbox.

Reproduce:
  • Check the checkbox
  • Define an order by clause
  • Uncheck the checkbox
  • Apply the changes
  • -> Rendering order is controlled by the order-by-clause

Associated revisions

Revision 4285d70b
Added by Nyall Dawson over 8 years ago

Fix "feature rendering order" checkbox is not honored (fix #14323)

History

#1 Updated by Nyall Dawson over 8 years ago

I agree that this is bad UX. It's often desirable to be able to temporarily enable/disable features like sorting without losing the sorting expression.

#2 Updated by Sebastian Dietrich over 8 years ago

  • Priority changed from Normal to High
  • Subject changed from Checkbox "Control feature rendering order" is checked without user interaction to Checkbox "Control feature rendering order" is not honored

I agree that this is bad UX.

It is even worse. Note that I had to change the subject and description because the checkbox is completely ignored. Only the order-by-clause determines the rendering order, regardless of the checked-state of the checkbox.

I raised the priority to Blocker because I think a new feature must not come with such a misleading UI.

#3 Updated by Sebastian Dietrich over 8 years ago

  • Priority changed from High to Severe/Regression

#4 Updated by Sebastian Dietrich over 8 years ago

  • Pull Request or Patch supplied changed from No to Yes

See PR 2809 for a solution. It is just a quick fix replacing the checkbox with a label and should act as a fall-back plan in case no better solution can be implemented before the upcoming release (7 days from now).

#5 Updated by Nyall Dawson over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

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