In some cases you may wish to create a report containing the combined output of two impact functions for the same area for the same hazard, different exposures. For example You may carry out an assessment of the impact of a flood on population and on buildings and combine the results into a single report. The impact layer merge tool allows you to do this.
In order to use this tool, please bear in mind the following requirements:
To use this tool, follow this procedure:
The tool will generate a PDF per aggregation area. The PDFs will be placed in the designated output directory after completion of the merge process. The output will consist of a map page and a table page. These are illustrated below:
In the case of impact assessments where no aggregation has been used, only a single pdf report is generated. In the case of impact assessments where aggregation has been used, one pdf is generated per aggregation area.
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After report generation completes, the output directory will be opened automatically.
The default template report is located in /resources/qgis-composer-templates/merged-report.qpt. If that template does not satisfy your needs, you can use your own report template. Before using your own report template, make sure that your template contains all of these elements with id:
If any of those elements does not exist on the report template, the tools will give you the information of what element is missing on the template.
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You can arrange those elements in any position you want.
In terms of value replacement, there are three groups of elements on the template:
1. Elements that can be changed on InaSAFE Options tool. To change the value of these elements, please go to InaSAFE Option tools and change the value of the related field. Those elements are:
2. Elements containing tokens. The id of these element is not significant, only the token it contains. At render time, any of these tokens will be replaced. If you want to have a label containing value of these elements, enclose these elements with [] on a label i.e [impact-title] or [hazard-title]. Those elements are listed below:
3. Elements that are direcly updated by the renderer. All of these elements below are generated automatically by the tools.