New assets not working in Designer

[peajay]

I'm trying to make a symbol an asset also trying to make a layer group from layers panel an asset. I've followed tutorials and can't see where i'm going wrong. I drag the/layer grouping by click and drag from layers panel or from the canvas, i get a green plus symbol as i'm doing it. As soon as i reach the assets panel though it disappears under the panel.

With the symbol i try dragging from the symbols panel and it will only drag to the canvas. So same as above but no green plus sign.Can anyone advise whether i am doing something wrong or whether assets are just not working? 

It will let me use assets that are already there, but interestingly the file i ud=sed them with kept crashing!

I'm using apple powerbook m1

 

Help! I really want to use symbols across documents.

Thanks

Paula

 

Edited April 19, 2022 by peajay
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[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

If you're on Windows you probably need to use the option Add From Selection on the Assets panel, rather than dragging.

[iconoclast]

Hi peajay!

Possibly this linked thread will make it clearer.

For Layer Grooups, try as Walt said: select the group and click "Add from selection" in the burger menu of the certain category in the "Assets" panel.

[peajay]

Yay!!!! thanks so much! that worked a treat! I'm using a Macbook pro m1.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, both.