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"This command does not support targeting layers from different files"

Open atavoidturk opened this issue 6 months ago • 2 comments

"This command does not support targeting layers from different files" is extremely annoying in the web app, because the only way to combine the files is to use merge-layers, which significantly impacts performance because it creates blue lines that cannot be removed with -clean effectively forcing display of every layer at once, and for a lot of the command i use it on it is extremly unnessecary (e.g. -rename-fields, -each, -dissolve)

atavoidturk avatar Jun 30 '25 18:06 atavoidturk

I'd like to address both issues you raised

  1. Allowing more commands to run on two or more layers from different datasets.
  2. Making display of the ghosted lines optional.

Item 2 is easier than item 1, but will require adding a checkbox somewhere on the interface. One solution would be to add a dropdown menu labeled "Settings" along the top. I might also move the "Check line intersections" option from the main map window to the settings menu.

mbloch avatar Jul 01 '25 15:07 mbloch

The ghosted lines are now an option in the new "Display" menu.

mbloch avatar Jul 26 '25 20:07 mbloch