Is this a normal behaviour?

[Petar Petrenko]

Hi,

look at this example. The triangles are outside the layer. Now, when I select all elements and try to group them, the house is moved toward the triangles. If you put them inside the layer everthing is OK. Is this normal?

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[Old Bruce]

It may well be 'normal' behaviour. I say that because you have a Layer with three elements and a group outside that layer with two elements. I have never worked like that. 

It is certainly very unexpected behaviour, and in my opinion a bug. If you have everything in the Layer or out of the layer then nothing moves. That is expected, the not moving.

[Petar Petrenko]

5 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I have never worked like that. 

Me, too. I did it by mistake and it took me a few minutes before I realised they are outside the layer. I think it is a bit confusing because artboards are treated as layers. They have to have their own panel like pages in Publisher.

[Pšenda]

This is probably an bug(?), where nested objects from groups/layers are incorrectly(?) merged into a next group. If parent layers/groups are selected, they will be merged into the next group correctly. So the question is - how should merging nested elements from two different groups/layers actually work properly?
P.S. not only will the objects be moved from one group to another, but the position of some elements will also change - which I think is a bug. This bug (position change) does not occur, if they are both Layers.

[Dan C]

Hi @NNN,

Thanks for your report and file provided! I've been able to replicate this with your file and I am logging it with our developers now - as there are no constraints applied, I would not expect these layers to move when being grouped.

I hope this helps

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The issue "Objects move unexpectedly when grouped" (REF: AFD-2602) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.2.0.1857".
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