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
.
Then the dialog will appear, looking something like this:
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.
- Clip datasets to visible extent before analysis : This
option will cause QGIS to clip hazard and exposure layers to the currently
visible extent on the map canvas.
- When clipping, also clip features (e.g. will clip polygon
smaller): This option will any polygons that extend beyond the analysis
extents to be clipped so that they are contained by the analysis extents.
For example if you have a flood hazard polygon layer that extends far
beyond your area of interest, the flood polygons will be reduced so that
only the part inside of your area of interested is retained. This can
speed up processing time somewhat.
- Help to improve InaSAFE by submitting errors to a remote server :
This option, when enabled, will submit diagnostic information back to an
InaSAFE project server in the event of any error taking place that
we are able to trap. The information provided is useful to the
InaSAFE team to improve the robustness of the software we produce
and to spot trends in issues people encounter. Please note the warning text
below this option which is included here in full:
Note
The above setting requires a QGIS restart to disable/enable. Error
messages and diagnostic information will be posted to
http://sentry.linfiniti.com/inasafe-desktop/. Some institutions may not
allow you to enable this feature - check with your network administrator
if unsure. Although the data is submitted anonymously,
the information contained in tracebacks may contain file system paths
which reveal your identity or other information from your system.
- Show intermediate layers generated by postprocessing : This
option will cause QGIS to show the intermediate files generated by the
postprocessing steps in the map canvas.
- Default female ratio : This is the default female to total
population ratio used por generating Gender breakdowns
- 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 in the
InaSAFE User-Manual for more information on the keywords system.
- Enable developer mode. With this option enabled,
you can right click on the report area and use the webkit debug tools to
debug the output. This option is intended for advanced users only.
Note
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.