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How can I have a set of labels for a location, where the variables are within a single column?

What I am hoping for is to have placement of 'concentration' followed by depth at each location shown on label.

Example of my data:

Loc_ID (1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2...) Depth_m (0.2, 0.5, 1.0, 0.2, 0.5, 1.0) Conc. (1, 0.2, <LOR, 1 ,no data, 0.2) etc...

I have tried CASE and coalesce. However, in an instance where there is no data, the label shows an empty line, which is not required.

I am using QGIS.

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Sorry if I did not understand you properly; I thought you might want an expression like:

CASE 
WHEN "Conc" != 'no data'
THEN 'Loc_ID: '  + to_string("Loc_ID")  + '\n' + 
     'Depth_m: ' + to_string("Depth_m") + '\n' + 'Conc: '    + to_string("Conc")
ELSE 'Loc_ID: '  + to_string("Loc_ID")  + '\n' + 'Depth_m: ' + to_string("Depth_m")
END 

in the Field Calculator -

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Which will produce a new field for the label:

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[UPDATE]

To make a "grouped" label at each 'Loc_ID', you can use concatenate() function.

Using the previously made "Label" field, the expression would be:

concatenate("Label" , group_by:= "Loc_ID", concatenator:= '\n', order_by:= 'Depth_m')

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Given this is what you are up to, the expression for "Label" field should be simplified as below:

CASE WHEN  "Conc" != 'no data'
THEN 'Depth_m: ' + to_string("Depth_m") + ' , ' + 'Conc: ' + to_string("Conc")
ELSE 'Depth_m: ' + to_string("Depth_m")
END 

The final attribute table becomes:

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Please use the `"oneLabel"' field to add the label.

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  • Just a clarification. is there a condition where i could have the 'various' depths and conc under a single 'label'? or is that more a edit option in QGIS for labeling a point. cheers!
    – Alan Bull
    Jul 16, 2020 at 23:14
  • @AlanBull Yes, it is called aggregate operation. Please see the updated answer. If it is not answering your comment, please let me know.
    – Kazuhito
    Jul 17, 2020 at 8:17

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