Changing the Size of an Artboard in a document that is linked in another document resets the set ArtBoards in the receiving document while it is closed

[Ezbaze]

What Application are you using? 
Photo / Designer

Are you using the latest release version?
v2.1.0

Can you reproduce it?
Yes

Does it happen for a new document? If not can you upload a document that shows the problem?
Yes

hardware acceleration
Both

What happened for you (and what you expected to happen)

Changing the Size of an Artboard in a document that is linked in another document resets the set ArtBoards in the receiving document while it is closed, I would expect the artboard selection to stay the way it was, the same way it does when the Receiving Document is Open

The workflow I came up with relies on this to work, and it singlehandedly makes it obsolete ._.

Recipe for creating the problem

1. Create a Document: Linked

2. Create another Document: Receiving

3. Save both

4. Place Linked into Receiving as a Linked Document

5. Make 2 ArtBoards inside the Linked document, Save

6. In Receiving Document, duplicate the Linked Document and change their respective artboards to 1 and 2, Save

7. Close Receiving Document

8. Change the size of the artboard inside of the Linked document, Save

9. Open Receiving document, the artboards will be reverted back to "Document" instead of the selected ArtBoards

 

Workaround

Have all Receiving Documents Open, and hope you have enough RAM to do so 🥰, or avoid resizing artboards

 

Notes

The Linked Documents that I have tested this with are afphoto and are linked in a Receiving afdesigner

[walt.farrell]

44 minutes ago, Ezbaze said:

The Linked Documents that I have tested this with are afphoto

To clarify: You have .afphoto documents that contain Artboards? If so, that's unusual, so please indicate how you're creating them, in case that's relevant.

[Ezbaze]

Oops made a mistake, it's the other way arround ._.

 

( But even if it was an af photo, it wouldn't really make a diffrence, you can open either of them in either software )

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, Ezbaze said:

But even if it was an af photo, it wouldn't really make a diffrence, you can open either of them in either software

You can, yes. But using Artboards in Photo, especially multiple Artboards, can provide some surprising results, and often seems to expose bugs in some common Photo workflows.

[Ezbaze]

Okay i did some tests, and the root cause of the issue was the fact that i had "Automaticlly update linked resources when edited externally" on, which caused this weird bug

 

[Lee D]

Thank you for the report. I've replicated the issue and passed it over to the developers.