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ReExpanded description of the problem and some thoughts
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Measure collected polygons in Geometry Generator, avoiding extra texts from multipart polygons

I combined a set of polygons on the first instance of Geometry generator using something like this:

buffer(buffer(collect( $geometry, concat("MZNA","REGLABEL")), 0.1), -0.1)

Buffers are meant to join poligons with a little separation. Thing is, after that I defined marker lines to simulate measurement, but in the case of multipart polygons, I get random measures floating between the different 'islands'. So I want to separate them before measuring, but I dont know how...

EDIT: What im trying to avoid is this:

Im using the approach shownin Labeling each individual side of polygon in QGIS by @she_weeds. My problem is, as shown in the pic, after collecting and buffering, I get some multipolygons and those ones gets an extra text floating between the polygon parts. Is there a way to avoid it without dissolving the generated geometry?

Im not experienced enough to know if its possible (started using QGis 2 weeks ago), but i thought some options:

  • Dissolve polygons instead of collecting them, using a python function. Didnt know how to call dissolve from the function editor, didn't even know if it was possible.
  • Apply a filter to the collect statement.
  • When generating lines from points, or text from those lines, somehow test the points to condition the generation of lines.
  • When generating points from nodes, test multipart polygons and generate different sets of points. Managed to successfully test that but didnt manage to create more than one set of points.
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