Affnity Designer groups/search/order in symbols palette

[Clawiste]

Hi,

 

I would love to see ability to group/search/order symbols in symbols palette, for example currently I'm working on UI kit and there are a bunch of symbols and it would significantly reduce a time searching for a specific symbol

 

Thank you!

[vonBusing]

+1

[jarombrand]

+1 

 

I'd also like to be able to delete more than one symbol at a time

[QuietDesign]

+1

Would also be nice to have a 'replace symbol' feature. Selecting a symbol currently on the art board and replace the symbol with one in the symbols library.

[Schubi63]

+1 

 

a huge: YES!

I'm totally missing any option to organize the symbols, like:

 

- sorting (automatically by name, create date or manually)  

- replace (like QuietDesign mentioned above) would be a great time saver.

 

But I would go a step further - not only replacing a symbol by another symbol - just any object could be replaced. In my workflow it happens often, that I create e.g. a logo or whatever, duplicate an artboard go on with my work ... and on some point I realize that it would be better to have that object (logo) as a symbol would be great. Currently I can create a symbol out of one of my used logos but have to replace each one afterwards with the symbol. That has a big potential to save work time, if I just have to select all desired object and popup the context menu and choose an option like "replace by symbol" - that's it.

[zantafio]

+100   !!

 

As soon as you have more than wo dozens of symbols it shows its shortcomings

[zantafio]

Also I would love to be able to drag a symbol from the symbol palette into the layers palette

[pixy]

I'm using version 1.8 and it seems the Symbols feature has not been updated over the past 4 years. 😞

I have around 50 symbols in my list and cannot reorder them in a more logical way. They are listed in the order I created them initially. This is a real usability problem.

Is there a chance to see an update anytime soon?

[JerryLin]

+1

[HeiligerBimBam]

The symbols feature are so powerful, but becomes unmanagable when the library growed.
Please, please, please add the same options we already have for assets!

[shushustorm]

+1

It would be great to be able to manually reorder Symbols.

Right now, I can't change their order, which, when working with a lot of Symbols, gets confusing fast.

Maybe even different options would be useful:

- Order manually

- Order by name

- Order by layer depth

- Order by time created (right now, default and, in my opinion, least useful)

[transitdiagrams]

+1

like you can do it with palettes 

[Intuos5]

Agreed, this request is still relevant for 2.1.

Reordering, a search bar and grouping would all be very nice.

[AJackson]

+1 I would like to have the ability organise symbols into groups. 

[ARulewich]

Adding my support for this imo necessary feature!