I'm trying to manually move labels but having some trouble. I'm trying to move the labels while in edit mode. I've added fields for x coordinate (all null), y coordinate (all null), rotation (all =0), and font-size (all =10). This makes the "move label" and "rotate label" buttons active, but when I click on the labels, no box around the label appears and it's impossible to move the label. What am I doing wrong?
[GIS] Labels cannot be moved although data-defined settings are active
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Best Answer
We found recently the same behaviour occurs when layer's alias have special character like "à , é, ë.. etc". If this is your case, just rename layer to a simple name. I will create a new bug entry for this in hub.qgis.org.