hperticarati Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 I really like the responsiveness and immediate feedback about symbols in Affinity. But managing them is not as easy as it could be, much of that happens because of the lack of some functionalities in Symbols panel. What I'd love to see in an updated version of the Symbols Panel: List view Custom categories to groups symbols Search bar Ordering options: manual, alphabetical Easier renaming: select one, double click the name, and when finished, press tab to rename the next one Features to manage symbols in the artboard: Contextual menu to replace a selected instance of a symbol in the artboard by another one on the library Option to, when cmd+click on the symbol, do not select it's layers, but the whole symbol. (This is useful when you want to select a symbol inside a complex hierarchy of groups and layers, but do not want to edit the symbol.) Other advanced features Ability to nest symbols inside symbols Ability to override nested symbols Well, this is what I'd like to see regarding symbols. I hope that this adds something to the discussion about the roadmap. Aammppaa, MattP, GRScott and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatih19 Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 The first part of this thread seems pretty easy, development should implement it right away. hperticarati 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Gummer Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 plus one on all of those things, but i don't expect it should take focus from current development Quote one planet, one chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Hmm … symbols nested to symbols … that should be possible already (see attached) … or you have something entirely different in mind … Symbols-Nested.mov MattP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 @A_B_C @hperticarati Nested symbols are indeed currently possible, but they are very buggy indeed! The nesting often breaks one or both symbols (orange line in Layers panel becomes dashed) or the symbol simply vanishes (at which point Undo will not bring it back). Nested symbols are a key feature for me in my work, and at present it is a real struggle to use them hperticarati and robrecord 2 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hperticarati Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 50 minutes ago, Aammppaa said: @A_B_C @hperticarati Nested symbols are indeed currently possible, but they are very buggy indeed! The nesting often breaks one or both symbols (orange line in Layers panel becomes dashed) or the symbol simply vanishes (at which point Undo will not bring it back). Nested symbols are a key feature for me in my work, and at present it is a real struggle to use them Yes, that is precisely what I had in mind... afyer having all my symbols unlinked from master a bunch of times, I’m kinda stucked in the decision of re importing all symbols (which is going to be a lot of work, considering that some of them should have been updated with changes I made directly in their instances), or switching to another tool tha handles symbols with more stability. So maybe, instead of asking for “nested symbols”, the key words should be “a more stable symbol workflow”. robrecord and A_B_C 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixy Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Totally agree. The Symbols feature definitely needs much better management features. All we can do right now is to either rename or delete symbols... wow 😕 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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