Send objects to layer without dragging?

[eobet]

I have about 10 000 objects in an (imported) file.

I've ungrouped them all because they weren't arranged the way I wanted to.

Now I've selected a few of them, and want to put them in another layer.

However, I can't drag in the layers panel because the scrolling would take forever.

Is there a shortcut or other menu option to send a selection to a specific layer?

EDIT: I guess clicking on the "move to back" button at least moves the selection to the bottom of the list to reduce the scrolling for the drag operation...

[NotMyFault]

A possibly way

1. select your layers
2. edit->cut
3. select target layer
4. Paste inside

[Return]

You didn't have to ungroup them because you can arrange layers while in a group.
You could have used the shortcuts for arranging layer(s).

[eobet]

Thanks, but just the act of selection sometimes scrolls the layer panel to where the object originally were placed, and since there's so many of them, the scrollbar is just a dot so it's quite RSI inducing to scroll to the bottom still when that happens.

In the 3D world in apps like Blender or Rhino, there are menu shortcuts to send a selection to a specific layer, without having to aim or scroll. I was hoping that there would be something similar here.

[Return]

Cumbersome I can imagine.
I'd rather select the parts that do belong together and group those.
That way you have less layers to scroll through and re arrange items within those groups.
Makes it better organized, at least that's my take on it.

You can however turn off autoscroll in the hamburger menu of the layerspanel if that helps?
And when an item is selected >rightclick>find in layerspanel goes to that item in the stack.
Maybe Serif could implement a (toggle) shortcut for this option and with the longpress option for shortcuts in beta2.2 override it temporarily.

[eobet]

Ah, thanks! Turning off auto scroll worked well.

It was frustrating, because even collapsing all layers and then selecting something, expanded the layer again turning the scrollbar into a dot.

I wish there was an "auto expand" toggle in that menu too.

[Return]

6 minutes ago, eobet said:

I wish there was an "auto expand" toggle in that menu too.

No auto expanding but rightclicking the group has expand/collapse selection and so does work the small arrow to the left of the group.

[thomaso]

A kind of workaround:

1. In app Prefs > General activate: "Prefer to keep selection after delete"
2. In Layers Panel: Deactivate auto-scroll.
3. Activate the Artboard Tool (and keep it selected)
4. Create a new artboard in identical dimensions.
5. Without changing the artboard tool select the first wanted bunch of layers.
5. Cut (or copy) the wanted layers in the Layers panel from the initial artboard.
6. Activate the new artboard by clicking on it in the main/layout window (the Artboard Tool is still selected).
7. Paste.
… da capo al fine

This way the layers can get pasted on the new artboard in the wanted layer hierarchy while the focussed Layers panel section will stay at or near its position and your current layers. No massive layer jumping in the panel. – No need to cut/copy all layers, you can re-paste from the new back to initial artboard at any time.

[thomaso]

First I tried to drag selected layers from the panel to the new artboard. I get a promising cursor icon: a + symbol with a tiny, stretched preview. But nothing happened when I released the mouse button.

Does this cursor occur in V2, too, and possibly with a different result?