Lukas T

That's good news. For me, the most important thing is that these new Global Layers will be created when importing an InDesign document, and then work as they did in InDesign.

I thought that there is a work around, using Master layers to show/hide throughout all pages, but meanwhile I noticed that this solution approach does not work at all. Thus all we can hope is that Affinity will release soon an update with the long discussed Global layers, or at least the option to link the show/hide functionality throughout all pages with identical layers. The size of this discussion should show that this is an important thing, and I would not call it a feature, it is an essential !!

Text Frames cannot be on the Master Page as they are different on every page. But they must show / hide when the Master Page shows/hide. May be attached screenshots do explain it (this screanshots are simulated; it is not a working solution)

I'm not able to build on that. If I add an additional text frame, this creates always a new layer on top of the hirarchie, but never as a part of the language layer.

May be I did still not get it, but I cannot see individual textframes on the different pages. A users manual has, on one page, a text right of the picture, on other page there is a full with picture with some text below and on next page the text is on top and the picture below. Thus the text frames must be individual on each page.

OK, sorry. Now I think I've got the right sample. But this example does only have one Page, and the content shown on this page comes from the Master page. Can you expand this sample with an second page that shows other content than the first page?

Sorry, but I cannot see any possibility to add some content on a single page as a child of a master. What you show on the screenshot of 19. November are elements that show up on all pages.

May be it does not make sense for a 400 page novel, but it makes definitely sense for a users manual which contains lots of pictures and/or screenschots and an explanation below each picture.

Well, that's very simple. If we import from InDesign, there are no individual layers on different pages. All pages have the same Layers. Thus the script has to show or hide thruout all pages the Layer with the same name. If one later on creates a new layer, affinity should ask if this layer has to be created on all pages or only on the current page. If one creats a new layer on just one page, the of course this one is excluded from global show/hide. If one renames or deletes a Layer which exists thruout the whole document, Affinity has to ask if that layer should be renamed (and kept linked) or deleted on all pages, or only on the current page. And if a previousely linked layer does not exist anymore on one page, this should not affect the functionality on any other pages. Or another attempt would be the possibility to have a Master page for each Layer with no content at all, and that I can add some individual Text frames on each page which are associated / linked to that Master page. And the Master Page will then only work as global show/hide. I'm still struggeling with the strange functionality of Master pages in Affinity, but it seams to work already half way like this. However, if a document is imported from InDesign, the relation between this Master page and its childes on the pages must be kept. I did also test Viva, and this does not have this Layer issue. Usingb Viva, Layers imported from inDesign do work as expected. I see no reason why this should not work in Affinity??

Having an option that a layer is shown/hidden with just one click on all pages is indispensable. Without this basic function, a publishing software is unusable. I have lot's of multi-lingual user manuals imported from InDesign. These have one layer for the pictures and one layer for each language. And if I like to change language, a click on english layer, for example, must hide the english layer on all pages, and a click on the german layer will show the german text on all pages. How Publisher works currently, the resulting document will be a language chaos. A simple Option "Link Layers accross all pages" would do the job for me. If this option is enabled, a loop has to go thru all pages and do the same I have to do manually at the moment.