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Workshop Lizmap#

Pre-requirements#

This workshop is designed for Lizmap users, half day.

  • FTP Client (WinSCP for Windows, Filezilla for MacOS/Linux)
    • qgis/theme_formation : for the workshop
    • qgis/theme_formation/media/metadata.pdf : a PDF file
  • QGIS 3.16
  • Lizmap plugin on QGIS Desktop
  • QGIS project attached in the email
    • The QGIS project contains layers from the PostgreSQL database

Documentation#

First quick map#

  • Open the project
  • Set the extent on the map canvas (showing all islands)
  • In the Project Properties :
    • Project menu / Properties
    • Relations tab, add all relations automatically with Discover Relations
    • QGIS Server tab,
      • Service capabilities
        • set a title such as Lizmap training NAME and an abstract
      • WMS capabilities
        • use the current canvas extent for the published extent
      • WFS capabilities
        • publish all layers
  • Open the Lizmap plugin
  • Only one time, add a server with your instance home page URL
    • Example https://workshop.lizmap.com/foss4g_2021/
    • We don't need user and password
  • Close the Lizmap plugin (it's creating the Lizmap file when closing the window).
  • Transfert the project (.qgs et .cfg) in the folder qgis/topic_workshop on the FTP

Tip

Bonus if you have a small PNG picture called name_of_project.qgs.png to replace the default project thumbnail.

Quick overview of the Lizmap web interface#

  • The map
  • Lizmap folders
  • Administration panel

Legend#

  • Add some groups in the legend
    • Editing with persons and observations
    • Data with municipalities
    • hidden, with small h, with species and you can add OSM base layer (from the QGIS Browser, XYZ Tiles)
  • Reorder layers to put them inside these groups according to the screenshot below
  • Rename layers with a more human-readable
    • Except for the OSM layer, in the group hidden, the name must be osm-mapnik

legend

Success

Lizmap is using QGIS Server in the background, the legend is, therefore, the same as in QGIS Desktop.

Some settings in the QGIS project or in the Lizmap plugin can have effects in the web interface.

Tip

Starting from now, often send the QGS file and the CFG file on the server to check the result.

  • Make a quick symbology on a point layer.
  • Add labels on the municipalities layer and add a scale based visibility for these labels (1:300 000)
    • name field for the source
    • Rendering tab, scale based visibility minimum set to 1:300 000
  • Go in the Lizmap plugin, Layers tab :
    • Enable the municipalities layer by default
    • Add some links on two layers:
      • PDF for the persons layer : media/metadata.pdf, a PDF link, stored in the folder media (you can see it in the FTP client)
      • HTML for the municipalities : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Polynesia
    • Go in Baselayers tag and add the OpenStreetMap Mapnik background.

Lizmap layer properties

Attribute table#

  • From the plugin, enable the attribute table for the municipalities layer.
    • In the Attribute table tab, add a new layer

Lizmap attribute table

Tip

We can improve our attribute table by adding some alias on the fields :

  • Properties on the vector layer ➡ Form attributes ➡ Alias for all fields

Let's add some popups "auto" and "qgis"#

  • In the Lizmap plugin, layers tab, enable some popups on the layer municipalities with auto mode and check the results by clicking on a municipality.
  • Let's get back in the Lizmap plugin Let's switch to a popup with QGIS mode on the same layer
  • Click on the Generate an HTML table
    • In the communes vector layer properties, rendering tab, then HTML Maptip, check the generated HTML.
  • Tip : QGIS ➡ View ➡ Show Map Tips to display maptip straight in QGIS Desktop. You need to select the maptip tool in the toolbar as well.

These QGIS popups are powerful with the use of QGIS expressions.

Avec des expressions#

You can use expressions :

  • to display with capital letters
  • to display in red if the population is less than 20 000 inhabitants
Display solutions
  • The first one about capital letters : 
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    <ul>
    <li>[% upper("name") %]</li>
    <li>[% "population" %]</li>
</ul>
  • The second one about the population in red : 
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    <ul>
    <li>[% upper("name") %]</li>
    <li style="color:[% if( "population" > 20000, 'black', 'red') %]">[% "population" %]</li>
</ul>

We can have the same style as the auto popup with the qgis popup by reading the documentation.

Editing capabilities on a layer#

We want now to enable editing capabilities on a layer in the Lizmap interface, to let some users add some observations.

  • In QGIS, try to add a point and check how the default form is displayed on the layer observations. You need to toggle editing mode first with the yellow pen.
  • Improve the form in QGIS :
    • Layer Properties ➡ Attributes Form -> Drag&Drop layout form
    • Remove the field id
    • Make two groups : Required and Optional

Drag/drop form

  • Field configuration :
    • fk_id_person :
      • Alias Watcher
      • Relation reference with name
    • fk_id_specie :
      • Alias Species
      • Value relation layer species, key column id and value es_nom_commun
    • date :
      • Alias Date
      • Date/Time by default
    • photo :
      • Alias Photo
      • Attachment
    • gender :
      • Alias Gender
      • Value map and add some values in the table Male, Female

Form values

  • As soon as you have your form ready in QGIS (more or less 🙂), add the layer in the editing panel in Lizmap

Success

We can use QGIS Expressions in the form (visibility, conditions, default value etc). Read the documentation.

PDF Print#

Extent chosen by the user#

  • In the given QGIS project, there is already a layout Landscape A4.
  • Enable print in your Lizmap plugin, map options tab.
  • Customize the title from Lizmap web interface in the PDF :
    • Click on the title Example workshop
    • Object identifier ➡ title

Success

In this case, the user is choosing the area of interest.

From a popup, extent defined by the feature#

  • Duplicate the existing layout and let's transform it to an atlas
    • Project menu, Layout manager, Duplicate, name PDF sheet
    • Edit this new layout
    • Enable atlas on the municipalities layer
    • Change the title to display the name of the municipality
    • Enable the map to "follow" the current feature
  • Check in the result in Lizmap

Success

While in this situation, the PDF is linked to a feature.

Dataviz#

Bar chart#

  • Add bar chart in the Lizmap plugin about population in municipalities (and not a histogram).
    • Layer : Municipalities
    • X Field : Name
    • No aggregation
    • Trace :
      • field population
      • color blue

Dataviz population

  • On "persons" layer, add a pie chart about each "watcher" :
    • Add a virtual field in "persons" called count, integer :
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relation_aggregate(
    relation:='observation_fk_id_person_fkey',
    aggregate:='count',
    expression:="id"
)

Pie chart#

  • Add pie chart in the Lizmap plugin
    • Title
    • Description
    • Layer : Persons
    • X Field : Name
    • Aggregation sum
    • Trace : count

Dataviz pie

Advanced filtered plot#

For now, it's only charts at the layer level. It's possible to make charts for a given feature, for instance for a given "watcher", to know his own observations.

Dataviz filtered pie

  • Add a virtual field label_species (text) in the observations layer to have the name :
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attribute(get_feature('species_aa247cf3_58c8_4852_8ada_1d707a593cfe', 'id', "fk_id_specie"),'es_nom_commun')

  • Add a pie chart on the persons layer :

    • Pie
    • Title : Species
    • Layer : Observations
    • X Field : label_species
    • Aggregation Count
    • Traces : id
    • Checkbox Display filtered plot in popups of parent layer
    • Checkbox Only show in child popup

Dataviz filtered pie

Final result

Dataviz filtered pie

Thanks 😎

Last update: August 2, 2022