Select multiple layers and edit multiple layers' names at once.

[Otto Manuel]

Select multiple layers and edit multiple layers' names at once.

For example, let's say you have a warp group with one hundred ants and a sugar cube in that group. Then you process the warp group with convert to curves. After that you would like to select the one hundred ants and label all of them "ants" with one operation, rather than selecting and naming each layer in a sequence of one hundred operations.

Wouldn't that be fun?

It would save some time too.

Thank you!

[Bound by Beans]

Yes, it would actually save time — especially if Affinity could search by name. 

Right now, you can only rename one item at a time by starting rename, typing/pasting a name, hitting tab (not enter), renaming the next, repeat repeat repeat repeat. Trivial Serif code, trivial process, waste of the customer’s time.

Similarly, I also recommend enabling sorting for a selection of layers — most importantly reverse, but also by label, for instance when you've numbered them yourself.

Shall we just mention VectorStyler again as inspiration?

If numbered is selected, as shown below, otherwise it happens without numbering:

Note the options for changing the order, which can be quite important if elements were created in the wrong sequence or if you’ve received a design where that’s the case.

It’s not just fun — it’s meaningful and extremely time-saving. 

Aaand I almost forgot it can search as well:

Search is extremely valuable for the user when dealing with hundreds of layers — especially if one of them is hidden. And did I mention that search is extremely valuable for the user when dealing with hundreds of layers — especially if one of them is hidden? I could also point out that search is extremely valuable for the user when dealing with hundreds of layers — especially if one of them is hidden.

Time is money, time is opportunity, time is limiting, time is critical. 

So yes, absolutely — that’s a request I can get behind.

[Otto Manuel]

I would love to be able to search by layer name.

Using a search feature would be like using a computer in the 1980s, except it would be 2025.

Search would make life easier, save time, and preserve more energy for creativity to flow.

Wouldn't that be fun?