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[Andrew James]

Thank you Em and Colin. 

Will try this week. Good to know it's possible.

Looking like HTML route as I need to present

best

Andrew

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Possible to show text fields as a text blurb in layout space?

Andrew james <andrewfra...@gmail.com>: Sep 09 10:20PM -0700 Hi everyone,   Thanks for your replies to previous questions. Working in local government here.   Say I have a point .shp file with points that I join to a table with text fields that have notes on the point feature.   Looking in to if it possible to take a field from the attribute table - a text field of 200-300 characters and display it as a text box in layout space, below the map? It would be linked and updated dynamically as the table data changes.   Or would this be just a long label that is positioned manually?   Hope it makes sense - thanks Andrew

Emma Hain <em...@north-road.com>: Sep 10 03:33PM +1000 Hey Andrew   You can create the text box via the HTML source <https://docs.qgis.org/3.40/en/docs/user_manual/print_composer/composer_items/composer_html_frame.html#html-source> and use the data defined override button to source it from the attribute field.   Kind regards Em   Emma Hain — Product Manager/Senior GIS Analyst em...@north-road.com [image: https://north-road.com] *North Road* Cartography • Development • Spatial Analysis ------------------------------ *north-road.com* <http://north-road.com> <https://twitter.com/northroadgeo> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/north-road-studios> <https://www.facebook.com/North-Road-997236690392419/home> FOSS4G 2025 <https://2025.foss4g.org/> 17-23 November, Auckland, New Zealand       On Wed, 10 Sept 2025 at 15:27, Andrew james <andrewfra...@gmail.com> wrote:

Colin Mazengarb <colin...@gmail.com>: Sep 10 08:05AM +0200 Hi Andrew, an alternative to Em’s suggestion is to have a table item that can be one field and based on an expression filter and with word wrapping. That way it will be dynamic. If you want fancy formatting then maybe the html route is better. Cheers Colin   Sent from my iPad

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