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I have downloaded the excellent set of snowflake designs from the Resources section of this forum.  I would like to add the designs to my Assets tab.  The Help file clearly says I can simply select and drag each separate snowflake to the Assets tab (I think).  I'm certain I've done this exact procedure before.

 

But this time, the + sign that the Help file says will appear does not and the individual design is, apparently, dragged beneath the tab but not added to it.  I've attached a quick screen recording which shows what happens, or rather doesn't happen.

 

I'd be very appreciative of any advice on this.

 

Thanks,

Jeff

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EDIT: to add I'm running version 1.6.2.97 of Designer.

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Hi Miguel.

 

Many thanks for this; clearly, my memory of how I achieved this before was wrong.

 

However, I now see another problem.  I've attached two screenshots: the first is the Sub-category tab when I first open the app and select to add the first design to the panel.  The addition is successful.

 

The second screenshot shows what then happens when I select a second design to add it: the hamburger menu disappears and can only be "resurrected" by closing and then re-opening AD.  I also notice the scrollbar at the right hand side of the Assets panel has disappeared!

 

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???? :S

 

Jeff

 

EDIT: Having checked all this again, and reproduced the problem once, but then failed to do so a second time, I see the "sub-category" "Assets" header below the "Personal" category tab "disappears".  Sometimes it can be restored by dragging the Assets panel wider and then narrower.

 

Now I am even more confused! :S :S

 

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Does this happen if you select show as list

 

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You can also add multiple items to the assets panel by selecting more than one, bear in mind if a shape has several components and isn't grouped each of those components will become a separate asset, grouping them will create a combined asset.

 

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I"m having the same issue with the snowflakes even on a Mac.

 

When I try dragging one of the snowflakes into a new asset category I created, called Snowflakes, nothing happens. I noticed that under this subcategory there is another line that says Assets and I can't figure out how to change that. See screenshot to snowflakes. In my other Asset categories, that second line is a specific subcategory.

 

I wanted to see if the problem had something to do with my new category I'd created so I went to another category I had previously successfully created, called Arrows, and tried to drag in one of the snowflakes. When I did this, I saw a grey rectangle in the asset panel. I then went to the same snowflake, right clicked it, and grouped it. I was then able to drag the group into the Arrow asset panel. It didn't show up as an image, just a white box, but when I dragged it back to the art board, another copy of the snowflake appeared. This suggests that I was able to include the entire snowflake as an asset.

 

But none of this was possible when I tried to repeat the process with the new snowflake category. So, I too, am confused. 

 

If anyone can explain this inconsistent behaviour, that would be helpful. Thanks.

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6 hours ago, DianeF said:

When I try dragging one of the snowflakes into a new asset category I created, called Snowflakes, nothing happens. I noticed that under this subcategory there is another line that says Assets and I can't figure out how to change that.

I think what you have is an assets category named "Snowflakes" with a sub-category with the default name "Assets." You can change the name of the sub-category by clicking on the sub-category's menu & choosing "Rename..." from the popup menu. 

 

As far as I know, you can't add items to a category, only to a sub-category, but on a Mac you should be able to drag & drop an item into the sub-category as long as it is opened. To do that, make sure its disclosure triangle is pointing downward.

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Thanks R-C-R.  Very helpful, as always, especially the tip for changing the subcategory name.

 

I think what was happening last night when I tried to move the snowflakes into the assets panel was that they were actually moving into the panel but because it was late and dark I couldn't see them in the assets panel. The color of the snowflakes is white against a white background so it looked as though nothing was there. This morning when I tried it again, dragging the snowflakes worked. It worked whether or not I grouped each one first. The ones that I grouped came in with the name "Group" while the others came in with the name "Curve".  I see that I can now rename each snowflake with its own unique name if I wanted to.

 

 

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20 minutes ago, DianeF said:

The ones that I grouped came in with the name "Group" while the others came in with the name "Curve".  I see that I can now rename each snowflake with its own unique name if I wanted to.

Asset names take on the name of the layer they come from. So if you have not named a layer prior to adding it to the Asset panel, it will default to the generic layer identifier, like Curve, Curves, or Group. If you named the layer prior to adding it, like say to "Snowflake 1," the asset will inherit that name.

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I'm glad I found this thread!

I was getting quite frustrated trying to drag items into the Assets tab, having read in Help that I could add items by dragging.

Useful to know that it doesn't work in Windows.

Also useful to know that I can't rely on the Help file in AD for Windows, because (apparently) Serif just included the MAC version rather than making it Windows specific!

Considering that the only Assets included are for IOS10, I'm starting to feel like a "poor relation" compared to MAC users.

I can only assume that Serif aren't really that interested in their Windows customers! :(

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1 hour ago, PaulEC said:

Also useful to know that I can't rely on the Help file in AD for Windows, because (apparently) Serif just included the MAC version rather than making it Windows specific!

Considering that the only Assets included are for IOS10, I'm starting to feel like a "poor relation" compared to MAC users.

 

Since iOS is a mobile operating system for iPad and iPhone, it’s no more Mac-related than Windows-related (and anyway it’s now at version 11, so those assets may be out of date). But there are indeed a number of places where Mac-specific references have been left in the Help files for the Windows versions of the Affinity apps.

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2 hours ago, PaulEC said:

I can only assume that Serif aren't really that interested in their Windows customers! :(

Or just that they are normal humans & missed a few things?

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