Hi all! I've checked a few other threads about weird things with master pages, but I haven't seen a solution or even the problem I'm encountering, so hopefully I'm not repeating, but here goes:
I'm working with Affinity Publisher on a desktop, windows 10 computer. I have my document set up with master-pages that have full bleed backgrounds (think of setting up parchment texture background for a fantasy art book). Then, when I'm working on the pages of the document, and I want to add an illustration, I drag and drop the image from the folder into the document and drop it in. It's naturally on top of everything else, but let's say I want to push it behind all the other text and images I have. The way my brain and workflow works, instead of doing "move back one" several dozen times or trying to shuffle layers in the Layers window (because I usually have tons of text boxes, lines, objects and other images), I just say "send to back" to put it behind all the other stuff.
But when I do that, it goes BEHIND the master page! When it's behind the master page layer, I can't click on it to select it--I have to click-drag to select the entire area where it used to be visible. I can bring it back by doing a "move forward one," but it's really annoying do to over and over. Also, it seems to activate the detached master option frequently, which is really annoying. Reapplying the master can reset the background if I've accidentally moved or scaled it, but it's still "detached."
(Maybe I'm stuck in my InDesign ways, but isn't the point of a Master Page to have a locked background? The way Masters seem to work in Affinity Publisher now, it's like a building contractor saying "that bathtub should go all the way down" and the plumber putting it under the foundation. 😅)
I have two main questions:
1 - Is there a way to lock the master page to the background so that layers/objects on the working pages can't end up behind it?
2 - Is there a way to re-attach detached masters once they've been activated? or turn off the feature? (I don't need it at all in my work flow.)