Symbols not working?

[captain_slocum]

I have Affinity 2.2.0 on Mac OS 13.6 and have used symbols many times in the past, but cannot get it to work on 2.2.0. I have followed 5 different tutorials on symbols, including the latest official one in the V2 help file absolutely to the letter but nothing works. Is this a bug or is there a setting somewhere I have overlooked?

[captain_slocum]

BTW, by not working, I mean that what ever I do the other instances of the symbol do not not update. They show as symbols in the layers panel and have the solid red line by them, including when I alter an instance of one (no dashed red line, so not detached).

[GarryP]

If we don’t know exactly what you did then we will have trouble trying to replicate it to see if the problem happens for us too.

If you can share the link to one of the (shorter, preferably) tutorials which you can’t follow, and tell us the approximate time-code/place of where things branch between expected and actual, then we can try it for ourselves to see what’s going on.

Full-screen screenshots, or a video, are often useful so we can see what you can see on your screen.

P.S. I wasn’t aware that there were any tutorials for symbols “in the V2 help file”.

[HCl]

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[captain_slocum]

Thank you Return for the very helpful video. I was simply selecting the shape on the page or the layers panel, not clicking the disclosure arrow in the layers panel and selecting the shape within the shape. So all fine now.

FYI, the information I was alluding to is in the Affinity Designer V2 Help section (From the main menu, Help/Affinity Designer V2 Help/Object Control/Symbols). It actually states:

To edit a symbol instance:
On the Layers panel, expand a chosen Symbol entry, then edit the objects within. [My italics].

I obviously did not read this carefully enough, assuming I just needed to select the shape.