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Why the "Move Data Entry" (...ps weird name) is not found in any menu? I just found out about this feature by complete accident by stumbling upon it in Spotlight (https://affinityspotlight.com/article/cool-rotations-and-transforms-in-affinity-22/). This is basically a transform feature so why make this a secret feature? This should be in the Layer > Transform menu (I'd think).

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Quick Grid is not in a menu either, as far as I know.

I guess they expect users to read the What's New section of the website (which I think the initial dialog in the application points to) or in the Help introduction.

I'm not sure that Layer > Transform is the right place for them, but it does sort of make sense for Move Data Entry (but not for Quick Grid).

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There are additional improvements to Move Data Entry coming in 2.3, and currently being discussed/tested in the beta, by the way:

 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
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Thanks, I did not know about qick grid either. I usually just explore the menus for functionality. Who has time to read all the time, LOL?

 

Move Data Entry has a Ui (dialog box) so it should be in the menu. Most graphics app has all these functionalities inside a Transform dialog. “Move Data Entry” is such a confusing name. It sounds like a database function. I get Affinity is trying to innovative, but at least innovate right.

MacBook Pro 2015 | macOS Monterey 12.7.6 | Affinity Suite 2.5.5

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As this is specific to certain tools I am wondering if a button on the context toolbar might be more appropriate?

Either way I agree that a feature like this needs to be exposed in more ways than just a keyboard shortcut.  It should either be in a menu or have a button somewhere that brings it up.

  • 2 months later...
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I think both this and object creation data entry should be in the right click menu.

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