Searching for a specific layer (object) by its name ?

[laurent32]

When you work on an afpub file that in fact "includes" texts and plenty of afdesigner and afphoto files you always end up with hundreds and hundreds of layers and or groups… 

I feel I miss a sort of CMD-F (search) to get to a specific layer (object) directly (supposing I named it correctly).

Did I miss an affinity function there ?

Thanks.

[walt.farrell]

I don't think I understand your problem. When you include (Place, I presume) a .afdesign or .afphoto fine into a Publisher document, you get 1 layer per file. Where do the "hundreds" of layers come from

[laurent32]

If I look for a specific objet that I have named before, I would love to do a CMD-F for that name and then it would show up in my layer list, opening groups if necessary.

The term I used, layer, might not be the right one. No "layer" notion in QUARK XPRESS v2.12 I started with… hey might now be 40 years ago… !!

if you have a 48 pages A3 newspaper with plenty of adds in it and if you open the groups, looking for somethings, it might be more than tedious and yes you might be scrawling among hundreds and hundreds of elements…

The older I get the more I work with databases (filemaker) and try to automate a maximum of things using names or codes…

By the way I'm drastically waiting for a link between filemaker and affinity products…

We badly need automation in order to be productive after having being creative !

[walt.farrell]

Thanks. 

Perhaps the Resource Manager will help? It gives you an overview of all the Places files, and lets you locate them in the document.

[laurent32]

Yes the resource manager could have been a nice place to start BUT you cannot (either) do a simple CMD-F to find things…

Thanks for your interest.

[walt.farrell]

27 minutes ago, laurent32 said:

BUT you cannot (either) do a simple CMD-F to find things…

No, you can't. but you can easily see all the file names that you would be searching for, and you can sort them to make finding them easier. And you can see previews, if you want to operate visually. And when you see the one you want the Locate button will take you right to it.

[laurent32]

"you can sort them to make finding them easier"

+ 1 point

"you can see previews"

+ 1 point

"the Locate button will take you right to it"

+ 1 point

All ok… BUT no good if you have hundreds of imports that have random names (no specific logic in the naming procedure) and too long to look at all those little pictures…

Minus 3 points.

And we're back to the beginning : we NEED that CMD-F feature… !!!

[walt.farrell]

Feel free to post a Feature Request in the Feedback section, or (better) concur with an existing one if it exists.