General (Process operations)

Collects together the geometries of Items into a single Item, without applying any spatial operation.

See Collect (Command).

Copies an existing Item.

See Copy (Command).

Breaks down Items with complex geometry into separate Items, for example MultiLine String Items will be turned into several Line String Items.

See Decompose (Command).

Filters Item using an expression.

See also Overlay Filters.

Example of using General > Filter

This example shows a number of Polygons in the Map Window with their areas displayed by a Labels theme:

This example creates a new overlay showing only the areas greater than 2000m2. Select the Process command to open the Processing Input window:

Select the required overlay and click Next.

This opens the Processing Operations window:

In the left-hand pane expand General and select Filter.

Click the right arrow button to bring Filter to the right-hand pane.

Click on Filter Expression, in the right-hand lower pane, the ... button for the Value column will now be shown. Click this ... button to display the Expression Builder dialog:

In the Expression values pane select Area and click Insert.

Add >2000 to the _area# expression shown in the top pane.

Click OK to return to the Processing Operations dialog.

The Filter expression _area#>2000 will be shown in the right-hand lower pane:

To save this Filter click the floppy disk icon. The Save Process As dialog will be displayed. Enter a Folder name and Name for the filter and click OK.

Click Next.

The Processing Output dialog will be displayed.

To create the output as a new overlay choose the Create a new Internal Overlay for the processed Item(s) option and enter Greater than 2000 as the name for the new overlay.

Click Finish.

Note: The filter is held in the (temporary) library and must be copied to the current library if it is to be saved.

The new overlay will show Polygons with an area greater than 2000m2.

Groups Items using an expression.

Multiple groups are processed in multiple threads, where possible.

Enter an expression to select and group a number of Items, i.e.

'_FC&' or ''Iif(_FC&=3,"House",building_type$)'

Replaces all instances of a sequence of characters in a Text Item with another sequence of characters.

Property

Value

Find what*

The characters to be replaced.

Match case

Should the characters only be replaced if the case matches? True/False

Match word

Should the characters only be replaced only if a whole word matches? True/False

Replace with

The characters to use as a replacement, or a blank string to remove characters.

Sorts Items by a value.