Resource Manager – redundant column?

[thomaso]

Currently the Resource Manager shows for every entry its "Status" and its "Placement". I assume the status for linked files can be "OK" or "Missing", while for embedded resources it's always "OK" and can't be "Missing". Or is there any different I haven't experienced yet?

So in my impression either the "Status" or the "Placement" column could simply display 3 different states: "Linked" ("OK")  –  "Missing"  –  "Embedded" ("OK")

Besides a possibly reduction of required window size/screen space: It happens that I look at "Placement" + see "Linked" but without noticing a "Missing" in the separate column. In my understanding the status "Missing" should not be able synchronously with "Linked" in the way that the point of "missing" is being "currently not linked" simply because of the missing link.

[thomaso]

I want to add improvement wishes for the Resource Manager window – aside the obsolete column.

• When I enlarge the window width to see long file names then not the "Name" but the "Placed DPI" column gets widened, displaying just empty space.

• The details area appears to have a special typographical approach (and, I guess, unique within the Affinity UI): Right aligned text for the labels, left aligned for values / contents. Together with the left margin as wasted space it causes cropped entries e.g. for long Profile names or long Placed size values.

[walt.farrell]

10 minutes ago, thomaso said:

When I enlarge the window width to see long file names then not the not "Name" but the "Placed DPI" column gets widened, displaying just empty space.

That happens on Windows, too.

However, at least on Windows, if you want to see more of the file Name, you can click on the Status column (click just in front of the column label, where the cursor becomes the two-headed arrow) and drag that column (and the others that follow it) to the right. This works for any column except Name, I think. Perhaps this will give you what you want.

[thomaso]

Walt, this works on mac, too. But is no reason not to change / improve the current behaviour. And, actually, no reason to have it initially developed that way. This thread is rather about redundancy than feature requests. For the Resource Manager there is another thread with different and more detailed aspects:

[Old Bruce]

Linked files can be Okay, Modified or Missing. It depends on whether or not you have the linked set to autoupdate linked files. Note that I can have files linked and files embedded in the one document. I would prefer being able to sort by Linked versus Embedded or sort by Missing, Modified or Okay.