Publisher 2.0.4 - User Swatches aren't linkable despite being advertised as such

[Frank Jonen]

Why even have it in the menu when it's not functional?

There are nicer ways to advertise an upcoming feature.

 

[walt.farrell]

As far as I know it is functional, but it would only make sense for an Application Palette. What kind of palette are you trying to apply it to?

[walt.farrell]

Also, if you have the Preference set to automatically Link Content Categories, then it's Linked as soon as you create it. And in that case Link will be unavailable as it's already Linked. If you change the Preference, you would find the Link action becomes enabled for unlinked Application Palettes.

[loukash]

affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Addons/linkingContent.html

[Frank Jonen]

23 hours ago, loukash said:

affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Addons/linkingContent.html

Thanks for being unhelpful. This is already available within the app.

[Frank Jonen]

On 2/4/2023 at 6:15 PM, walt.farrell said:

As far as I know it is functional, but it would only make sense for an Application Palette. What kind of palette are you trying to apply it to?

Document palette as I need global colours. 

[Frank Jonen]

23 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Also, if you have the Preference set to automatically Link Content Categories, then it's Linked as soon as you create it. And in that case Link will be unavailable as it's already Linked. If you change the Preference, you would find the Link action becomes enabled for unlinked Application Palettes.

I just tried that but it doesn't do anything as the palette already exists. I'd have to start over with the project for that to work.

Also weird that I can't duplicate Document palettes. What's up with that? Back in my Adobe days that was my go-to tool for creating color themes.

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, Frank Jonen said:

Document palette as I need global colours. 

You can't Link a Document Palette, as it exists only in a particular document. But if you create one in a document, and use that document in a different Affinity application, the Document Palette will be there.

If you want a particular Document Palette to be available in all new documents that you create, you can:

1. Start the documents from a Template, not a Preset, and create a Template that includes that Document Palette.
   or
2. Given a document with a particular color format, create a Document Palette in that document. Then you can set that Palette as a Default for that color format via the Swatches panel options (burger menu). After that, if you create a new document with that color format, that Document Palette (with the contents it had when you made it a Default), will be created automatically in the document.
   
   Note, though, that any changes you make to that Palette will not affect other documents. And they will not be made to new documents unless you set that modified palette as a Default again after making the changes.

[Frank Jonen]

27 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You can't Link a Document Palette, as it exists only in a particular document.

That makes it the perfect case for a linked document. If not THE use case. Application and System palettes don't need linking because they are in this state by default.

Linking actually only makes sense for Document palettes.

[walt.farrell]

10 minutes ago, Frank Jonen said:

Linking actually only makes sense for Document palettes

No, it only makes sense for Application palettes, which could be linked or not. 

It makes no sense for document palettes because each one exists in exactly one document.

Linking is a cross-application function. It is not related to documents.