Making child layer

[jsampson45]

I am looking at a tutorial on this (I would give the URL but that causes the whole tutorial to be included in this message). I cannot see what keys or buttons the tutor is pressing. When I try to do the same thing it just moves a layer up and down in the stack. Is there a clear account anywhere how to make a "parent" layer the child of another "parent" layer"? I am using Affinity Designer 2.4 in Windows 10.

[thomaso]

This thread by @Dave Vector offers various PDF documents illustrating the process of nesting layers. This link leads to the most recent file version for…

… Affinity V1:  "Layers Panel Cheat Sheet 3.2.pdf" (for more / earlier versions you might scroll up in that thread):

… Affinity V2:

 

Edited March 6, 2024 by thomaso
edited thanks to Oufti's hint below to the separate thread for Affinity V2.

[thomaso]

@Dave Vector, maybe you want to change your thread title ("V1") and/or add hints in its first post to your later PDF update(s), in particular regarding V2 … Edit: … in the separate thread.

Edited March 6, 2024 by thomaso
edited thanks to Oufti's post below this post

[Oufti]

4 hours ago, thomaso said:

This link leads to the most recent file version "Layers Panel Cheat Sheet 3.2.pdf"

Actually, this is the most recent version for Affinity V1.
For Affinity V2, there is another thread, with "Layers Panel Cheat Sheet v4.2.pdf"