Affinity page/artboard focus issues

[lukramon]

Hi,

Recently, I have been using Affinity Designer's artboards and found them to work great. However, there is one thing that really bothers me. If I want to draw within a particular artboard, I have to select an object within the board or the board itself to enable snapping. This significantly slows down my workflow, especially when dealing with multiple layers.

I have observed a similar issue in Publisher as well. For instance, if I wish to paste something onto a specific sheet, I must first select it; otherwise, the paste action will apply to a different sheet. It can also be confusing when the focus is on one page, and I select content from another page.

In any case, I'm really satisfied with Affinity, and I encourage you to continue improving your software.

Thanks, Luk

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, lukramon said:

if I wish to paste something onto a specific sheet, I must first select it

Somehow I don't understand how else you would want to do it - if I want to put something "somewhere", then obviously I have to say "where".
How else is the app supposed to know?

[lukramon]

34 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

Somehow I don't understand how else you would want to do it - if I want to put something "somewhere", then obviously I have to say "where".
How else is the app supposed to know?

I see what you're saying, it's easier said then done, but there are better options. You could write a function that checks what artboard or page is within your viewport, then past the clipboard to the center of it for instance. 

[Pšenda]

43 minutes ago, lukramon said:

that checks what artboard or page is within your viewport

And what if you have several pages/artboards displayed? Then how is the application supposed to recognize it? So isn't it better and less confusing for users to do it the same way every time and under all circumstances?
Or, I copy objects from one artboard to another - so I have the "source" artboard/page displayed, not the "target" one where I want to copy the objects. The need to always display the target page/artboard is time-consuming and very inconvenient, because I have to keep switching and displaying the target, source, target, source, .... This way I just always have the source artboard displayed (this is important because I select objects from it that I want to transfer), and I just select the target in the Layers panel with a simple click.

[lukramon]

3 hours ago, Pšenda said:

And what if you have several pages/artboards displayed? Then how is the application supposed to recognize it? So isn't it better and less confusing for users to do it the same way every time and under all circumstances?
Or, I copy objects from one artboard to another - so I have the "source" artboard/page displayed, not the "target" one where I want to copy the objects. The need to always display the target page/artboard is time-consuming and very inconvenient, because I have to keep switching and displaying the target, source, target, source, .... This way I just always have the source artboard displayed (this is important because I select objects from it that I want to transfer), and I just select the target in the Layers panel with a simple click.

I see, but then you'll stumble across some 'bugs', like it was in Publisher I believe. What I suggested is actually happening in Publisher 2, but also in inDesign and Illustrator. I hope this will be applied to artboards in Designer too.