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I work with this polygon and I try to use the vector tool "Singleparts to Multipart" in order to expload the layer to multipart, so I can select each part seperatly.

I don't care if the features in the attribute table has the same value. All I want is exploded layer:

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and I get this error:

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"At Least two features must contain the same attribute value"

I read Producing singlepart featureclass with unique IDs for each spatially non-connected polygon? ,but didn't get an answer

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  • Function is trying to find polygons which have the same "myid" value and combine them into multipolygon. Feels like a bug to use term "Unique ID field" in the UI. It might rather be called as "grouping field". If you want to combine all polygons into one multipolygon add a new attribute and fill it with same values. Depending on your use case the dissolve tool may also be usable gis.stackexchange.com/questions/123722/….
    – user30184
    Commented Nov 24, 2016 at 22:03
  • i want to create a lot of features and not create one single feature.
    – newGIS
    Commented Nov 24, 2016 at 22:23
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    Does it mean Multipart to singleparts?
    – Kazuhito
    Commented Nov 25, 2016 at 0:06
  • i think this is the tool i need
    – newGIS
    Commented Nov 27, 2016 at 6:45

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You are using the wrong tool. If you want o "explode" multipart features so that you can edit them separately, then you must use the "multipart to single part tool" or use the Multipart Split Plugin.

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  • this tool only create temporary layer , but in the attribute table there only one row instead of two rows
    – newGIS
    Commented Nov 27, 2016 at 6:33
  • @newGIS Could you expound a little more on what was the problem? With all due respect, I feel there is small misunderstanding about the tool's behavior. It's advantage and how-to can be found here (direct link) or through the repository page in the answer.
    – Kazuhito
    Commented Nov 27, 2016 at 11:22
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The answer is in the error comment: "At Least two features must contain the same attribute value". For example, if it is used the FID field in the "Singlepart to multipart" tool, for shapefile of next image, I got "Invalid unique ID field".

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On the other hand, when the "values" field was used, the shapefile named "Multipart" was produced without any problem.

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It can be observed that the attributes table of Multipart shapefile has only one record because "value" field has only one value: 15.

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