InaSAFE Options

The InaSAFE plugin provides an options dialog which allows you to define various options relating to how InaSAFE will behave. The options dialog can be launched by clicking on the InaSAFE plugin toolbar’s options icon (as shown below) or by doing Plugins ‣ InaSAFE ‣ InaSAFE Options.

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Then the dialog will appear, looking something like this:

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Note

You can click on the Help button at any time and it will open the help documentation browser to this page.

The following options are available on the Options Dialog:

  • Only show visible layers in the InaSAFE dock : This option will determine whether all (when unchecked) hazard and impact layers should be listed in the InaSAFE dock’s combo boxes. or (when checked) only visible layers.
  • Set QGIS layer name from ‘title’ in keywords : This option will (when enabled) cause QGIS to name layers in the Layers tree using the title keyword in the layer’s keywords file. If the layer has no ‘title’ in its keywords, or it has no keywords at all, the normal QGIS behaviour for naming layers will apply.
  • Zoom to impact layer on scenario estimate completion : This option will cause the map view to zoom in/out in order to completely contain the InaSAFE impact scenario map output when an analysis completes.
  • Hide exposure layer on scenario estimate completion : This option will cause QGIS to turn off the exposure layer used when InaSAFE completes the current analysis. You can re-enable the layer visibility again by checking its checkbox in the legend.
  • Keyword cache for remote datasources : This option is used to determine where keywords are stored for datasets where it is not possible to write them into a .keywords file. See Keywords System for more information on the keywords system.
  • Run analysis in separate thread (experimental) : This option cause the analysis to be run in its own thread.

Warning

It is not recommended to use the threaded implementation at this time. For this reason it is disabled by default.

Pressing Cancel at any time will close the options dialog and any changes made will not be applied.

Pressing Ok at any time will close the options dialog and any changes made will be applied immediately.

Note

The exact button order shown on this dialog may differ depending on your operating system or desktop environment.

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