Import icon sets as navigatable assets?

[Rickuk]

Hi all, I've had a look in the FAQs but come up blank on this. I'm just starting out in the Affinity ecosystem, and one thing I'd like to be able to do is add my icon packs, grouped by style and license and able to be navigated through using the asset pane or similar. The bundled "ios12" icons are a good example. 

 

Can someone advise please how I can bulk import several hundred svg files in this manner. 

 

Thanks

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @Rickuk.

In Designer:

1. Create a category and subcategory in the Assets panel.
2. Create a new document.
3. Open Finder (Mac) or File Explorer (Windows), and navigate to a directory containing a bunch of SVG files that you want to be in that category/subcategory.
4. Select the SVG files and drag them onto your document, where they will become layers.
5. Select the layers in the Layers panel.
6. Click the Preferences (burger) menu for the Assets panel, and "Add from Selection".

(Try with a small number of files first, in case fine-tuning of the approach is needed )

In Publisher it would be the same. In Photo I might suggest File > New Stack... as a possible simplification (but the approach above would also work).

In Mac you could also drag from the Layers panel to the Assets panel, rather than using the menu in step 6. In Windows dragging will only work in 1.9. I would probably use the menu in either case for this scenario.