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(Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 22H2, Affinity Designer 1.10.6.1665) This may just be expected behaviour, but I find it really unfortunate. I have set up dozens of reusable buttons and panel elements for a user interface. These elements will be themable to create variations of the interface (Halloween, Christmas, Easter, etc). To make this workflow happen I have set up global colors in a custom document palette. Inside a duplicated version of the master AD file, I adjust the global color values in my custom document palette and all of these themable elements update to create the theme perfectly. This workflow works extremely well for my needs. One of the things I would like to do is to create symbols for groups of reusable elements, such as a group of a list of these themable buttons. When I create a symbol of this group, all of the themable buttons no longer have their connection to the global colors. I can go back through the symbol after it is created to reapply the global colors, but it is an extremely long and tedious task because these colors are being used on not only the fill and stroke, but also in the fx style an a lot of locations on these elements. Is there a setting or something that I may be missing that would allow the creation of symbols to maintain their connection to the global color that was set on the element? Thank you!

This has been happening a lot with symbols - I've found an old thread that might be related (here). 1. I create a symbol so that I can place it on multiple artboards and test different compositions. I never turn symbol syncing off or detaching any instances. 2. Then I start changing the colors of certain elements inside the symbol. 3. At some point, a few of the symbol instances will stop syncing the color for some of their elements.All other properties of the very shapes sync just fine however. For other instances everything syncs, even the color! In the following video sample I use the 1st instance to rotate an element (everything is one symbol) and change it's color. The 2nd instance updates fine on both properties. For the 3rd (buggy) instance only the rotation updates (and not the color). Things started going awry after I duplicated the 3 colored elements inside the symbol, hid the originals and assigned global colors to them. I'd be happy to email a sample corrupt file for debugging purposes. cheers! bug.mov

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