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Move tool not working properly with artboards


karen

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Hello,

I am experiencing a bug on MacOs 11.0.1 with Affinity designer 1.8.6., working with a document containing multiple artboards. Suddenly, when using the move tool to try and move objects inside an artboard, it doesn't select anything if I click on things. Even using a drag motion to select with the blue selection box (not sure what it's called) doesn't work. It almost acts like if all my objects and artboards had the "lock" option activated, but it's not! The only thing I can do to select objects so I can modify or move them (that goes for shapes, text, embedded documents, images... anything) is to find the artboard in the layers panel, expand it and find the exact object I need, then by clicking on it things seem to "unlock" and objects of that artboard work as normally. The problem is that as soon as I want to select something from another artboard, the same problem occurs. I have also noticed that if I create a shape, import a pdf or create something in an artboard, it goes under another artboard in the layers panel and therefore it's not visible until I find it and move it where it belongs. Working becomes tedious like this! I hope there's a way to fix this, I have tried quitting Affinity Designer and reopening it, then I have restarted my Mac and still the problem persists :(

I hope the explanation was clear enough!

 

UPDATE: I have managed to work around this issue by selecting all artboards, copying them and pasting them in a new file. However, I hope this bug can be fixed so i don't have to move files whenever this happens!

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Hi Karen,

I don't believe this is a bug - it sounds like you've disabled 'Edit All Layers' in the Layers Panel. With this turned off it will restrict your selection to the currently selected Artboard - you can change which artboard is selected, therefore changing the objects which you can select by clicking a different one in the Layers Panel. However it sounds as though you'd prefer to not have this behaviour so turning on Edit All Layers will bring it back for you. The button I'm referring to is in the bottom left of the Layers Panel - see below:
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15 hours ago, Albertjs said:

I am having a similar problem, when I try to move a text box a drop-down menu appears.  This also sometimes happens when I tried to move layers.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Can you provide a screenshot showing the drop-down menu, or tell us what it says? I would usually expect that only if you're using the right mouse button instead of the left button.

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You're welcome, Albert. Good to hear you got it sorted out :)

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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