Choosing Move Item Content in the print composer override Lock Layers

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Author Name: Luca Casagrande (Luca Casagrande)
Original Redmine Issue: 2049

Assignee: Marco Hugentobler

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Hello folks:

** Add the vector data attached to the ticket
** Choose Unique Value Style
** Create a new printer composer instance, add the map and set Lock Layers On
** Back to Qgis and change the style of the layer to anything and add it to the print composer
** Qgis is fine and the two maps have got different style
** From the composer toolbar choose "Move Item Content" and click on the first map (the one with the Lock On)
** After moving the map the style change as the Lock is Off.

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• sample.zip (Luca Casagrande)

[qgib]

Author Name: Marco Hugentobler (@mhugent)

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This is intended. 'Lock layers' means only to lock the layers displayed in a composer map, not their appearance.

Common use-case is this: you have 10 layers, but like to only display 2 of them in an overview map. So you set the 2 layers visible, add a composer map (as overview), select 'lock layers'. Then you go back to main map, set all 10 visible and add a second composer map in composer. Like that, you can have 2 composer maps displaying different layer sets (not layer styles).

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• resolution was changed from to wontfix
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed