Symbol count / tally

[GuyMiklos]

I use Affinity Designer for populating maps with infrastructural- and botanical objects. Any object that is repeated more than a few times I'll define as a symbol. This allows me to change the appearance of all instances of an object type at once. A marvelous feature. 

Another marvelous feature would be if it were possible to count how many instances there are of any given symbol. This would be really useful when ordering items from building suppliers or nurseries, or for planning plant propagation. Counting while searching a large map is really slow and frought with inaccuracy. 

 

 

[loukash]

20 minutes ago, GuyMiklos said:

if it were possible to count how many instances there are of any given symbol

You may want to give your symbols unique names.

1. select the one you want to count
2. Select → Select Same → Name
3. look at the left hand side of your contextual toolbar
4. voilà

[thomaso]

If you name the symbols individually you can select all of them by name and get the number of selected objects displayed in the upper left corner.