Bug report #6918

qgis:dissolve - "dissolve all" does not dissolve attributes

Added by Pedro Venâncio over 11 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:Closed
Priority:High
Assignee:Victor Olaya
Category:Processing/QGIS
Affected QGIS version:2.4.0 Regression?:No
Operating System: Easy fix?:No
Pull Request or Patch supplied:No Resolution:
Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:No Copied to github as #:16037

Description

New description:

the qgis:dissolve tool ("dissolve all" option) does not dissolve the attributes, just the geometries.
The original tool in the vector menu is ok

Old description:

Hi,

'Dissolve all' option is not taking effect. The result of the following commands is exactly the same.

sextante.runalg("qgis:dissolve","/home/pedro/Comunicacoes/Encontro_SMPC/Dados_Geograficos/Cont_AAd_CAOP20121/Cont_AAd_CAOP20121_dlxhgmil_3_Pinhel.shp",False,True,"Freguesia",None)

sextante.runalg("qgis:dissolve","/home/pedro/Comunicacoes/Encontro_SMPC/Dados_Geograficos/Cont_AAd_CAOP20121/Cont_AAd_CAOP20121_dlxhgmil_3_Pinhel.shp",False,False,"Freguesia",None)

I'm using QGIS master (today's Github) on Linux.

dissolve_all.jpg (202 KB) Pedro Venâncio, 2013-04-28 01:43 PM

dissolve_all_2.png (82.2 KB) Pedro Venâncio, 2013-10-15 09:46 AM

History

#1 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 11 years ago

this used to work, isn't it?

#2 Updated by Pedro Venâncio over 11 years ago

Hi Giovanni,

Yes, at this time I can not tell what the last 'version' that worked, but definitely it used to work.

#3 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 11 years ago

  • Priority changed from Normal to Severe/Regression

#4 Updated by Victor Olaya over 11 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Resolved

Fixed. The problem was that it was using the value of the other true/false field for the "use all" field. And, checking in github, the history of that file in SEXTANTE says it has been like that since the very first day...so I guess it never worked right :-)

You will see that now there is no "use selected" option. I am removing them and adding them as a global option, so algorithms are more compact and can be written with less code. This algorithm is adapted already, but I still have to work on the other fTools ones.

#5 Updated by Pedro Venâncio over 11 years ago

Hi Victor,

Funny, I almost swore that had seen him working properly! :)

Thank you very much!

#6 Updated by Pedro Venâncio over 11 years ago

  • Status changed from Resolved to Closed

#7 Updated by Anita Graser about 11 years ago

  • Status changed from Closed to Reopened

I'm testing with current nighly and "dissolve all" yes does not dissolve all features.

Also, it makes no sense that I have to specify a "Unique ID field" if I want to dissolve all. (In model builder GUI)

#8 Updated by Anita Graser about 11 years ago

It's really odd, because if I run Dissolve directly in the toolbox and select "dissolve all" NO, then it does dissolve all ...

#9 Updated by Pedro Venâncio almost 11 years ago

Hi,

Anita Graser wrote:

It's really odd, because if I run Dissolve directly in the toolbox and select "dissolve all" NO, then it does dissolve all ...

I can not confirm this. With dissolve all set to NO, it works ok. But with dissolve all set to YES, the geometries appears dissolved, but the attribute table has the same number of registers than the original layer minus 1, and the attributes of the first register appears repeated n-1 times. See the image attached.

Another issue is to dissolve big datasets. In case, I tried with a shapefile with 8612 records, and after 2 hours, there is no result.

#10 Updated by Giovanni Manghi almost 11 years ago

Another issue is to dissolve big datasets. In case, I tried with a shapefile with 8612 records, and after 2 hours, there is no result.

this is known issue, the qgis dissolve is very bad and until its code will be revised it basically necessary to use GRASS or SAGA... and with sextante is easy :)

#11 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 10 years ago

  • Status changed from Reopened to Closed

Anita Graser wrote:

It's really odd, because if I run Dissolve directly in the toolbox and select "dissolve all" NO, then it does dissolve all ...

I also cannot confirm this, tested with different datasets on both Linux and Windows. Please reopen if necessary.

#12 Updated by Salvatore Larosa over 10 years ago

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

I also cannot confirm this, tested with different datasets on both Linux and Windows. Please reopen if necessary.

do rows in attributes table are dissolved too ?

#13 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 10 years ago

  • Subject changed from qgis:dissolve - Dissolve all not working to qgis:dissolve - "dissolve all" does not dissolve attributes
  • Status changed from Closed to Reopened
  • Priority changed from Severe/Regression to High

do rows in attributes table are dissolved too ?

no :(

#14 Updated by Filipe Dias over 10 years ago

Still true?

#15 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 10 years ago

Filipe Dias wrote:

Still true?

yes

#16 Updated by Pedro Venâncio over 10 years ago

Yes Filipe.

#17 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

  • Affected QGIS version set to 2.4.0
  • Project changed from 78 to QGIS Application
  • Category deleted (61)
  • Crashes QGIS or corrupts data set to No

#18 Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 9 years ago

  • Category set to Processing/QGIS

#19 Updated by Pedro Venâncio over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Reopened to Closed

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