Rows and Columns Artboard Sorting. Auto numbering on duplication.

[Takudzwa Nyoni]

Would be great if the team at Affinity would add a feature that enables us to sort out artboards like HOW MANY IN A ROW or a COLUMN. Also if an artboard is Numbered at the end it would be good for it automatically increment numbers when artboard duplicates are created.

Edited September 29, 2020 by DesignCoyote1

[iProVid]

Yes this would be so useful. I spend hours renumbering artboards, it would be so easy to create an incremental numbering system. Also, why does it count upwards from the bottom rather than downwards? Who came up with that idea?

[Old Bruce]

15 hours ago, iProVid said:

why does it count upwards from the bottom rather than downwards? Who came up with that idea?

Don't know who. This is from the early days of computer programs, it is a metaphor.

The idea is that the layers are pieces of glass with things on them that are put down one on top of the other. Easy to put a piece of glass on top of thirty or so other pieces of glass. Very difficult to put one piece of glass underneath thirty or so pieces of glass. 

Another metaphor;

Brushstrokes put pigment (ink paint etc) on top of earlier pigment, not underneath it.