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Hi, made an account just for this idea I had today.  So I use Affinity Designer mainly for mocking up webpages or other applications.  I realize that often I want to quickly switch between 2 or more versions of the same feature to see which one I like more.  It may sound trivial but it is a bit of a pain having to check and uncheck each item in turn.

 

I would like the idea of "linking" layers, objects, or groups in the layers editor with the ability to make them mutually exclusive.  Meaning that at any one time only one of the layers can be checked.  Checking a different layer automatically unchecks any other active layer that is linked to this layer.

 

Example: I have an interface, with a group that holds  a menu bar and some icons.  In this menu bar, I have a group or layer that represents the 'Close' icon.  All members of this group are linked and mutually exclusive, so that when I want to switch to a different icon model I simply just tick the box.

 

 

I realize this may get buried with the insane amount of stuff you guys do, but its the little things that make a program nice to use you know?  Anyhow if this gets added to some list of "one day this shit'll be implemented and it'll be cool", I'll be happy.

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  • 11 months later...

Hello!

 

I second this request.

 

This project we work on very frequently has us hiding and unhiding layers and I imagine this would be a very helpful feature that could be applied to a group with layers containing interchangeable objects.

 

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In both images, Valencia C.F. and Atletico Madrid C.F. logos (as well as name text objects) are in a 'home team' folder. With this feature implemented, simply unhiding the Atletico layer would immediately hide Valencia's making the work 2x faster which would be a big boost since time is usually of utmost importance when updating these things to social media before/after matches.

 

I hope this gets considered....

 

Cheers!

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