Oshawk Posted April 5, 2018 Share Posted April 5, 2018 Hello, I have a situation where I have ~650 layers, all well named that I need to search through quickly to hide/show for different permutations of an image. Is there a way I can either sort the layers alphabetically to find them more easily or search for them. Thanks. elguapo, Markio, Miguel Rivera and 10 others 11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted April 5, 2018 Staff Share Posted April 5, 2018 Hi @Oshawk, Unfortunately, we do not have a search feature for the layers panel. Sorting the layers alphabetically would not be possible either It would be more of a manual search. Thanks, Gabe. Oshawk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oshawk Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 @GabrielM ok, I ended up exporting the file to an SVG and then used the search functionality in Inkscape. I would really like this feature or at least some scripting support so I could implement it myself as I will probably need to use it a lot in the future. Thanks. JuBe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadobir Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 I second the request for a feature to search and/or sort layers by name, type (pixel or adjustment), blend mode, etc. For my work it's critical. qwz, JuBe and den4ik 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Yes, a good feature request. I often have hundreds of layers, and scrolling thru them can often be quite difficult. So over to features request. angelhdz12 and cadobir 2 Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 1 hour ago, cadobir said: I second the request for a feature to search and/or sort layers by name, type (pixel or adjustment), blend mode, etc. For my work it's critical. This has already been requested in the Feature Requests, Suggestions and Feedback forum, which is where all feature requests should be made. Quote All 3 1.10.6, & all 3 V21.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.6; Affinity Designer 1.10.6; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelhdz12 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Yes please! Search/Sort Layers Search by layer type (pixel, group, vector, mask, adjustment filter, live filter) Search by blend mode Search by name/layer description Search locked/unlocked layers Search visible/hidden layers Search all layers with "x" FX applied to them Search by opacity level thedivclass, terentyev, cadobir and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terentyev Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 And has this ever been fulfilled? Same story here. Over a thousand layers, all named. Need to quickly find the necessary ones. cadobir and FoolsErrand 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 On 4/5/2018 at 2:02 PM, Oshawk said: I have a situation where I have ~650 layers, all well named that I need to search through quickly to hide/show for different permutations of an image. Is there a way I can either sort the layers alphabetically to find them more easily or search for them. +1 I am in exactly the same situation. A search feature would be more than useful. angelhdz12, FoolsErrand and JuBe 3 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctekk Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 This would be cool, indeed. JuBe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoolsErrand Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 On 4/5/2018 at 8:32 AM, Gabe said: Hi @Oshawk, Unfortunately, we do not have a search feature for the layers panel. Sorting the layers alphabetically would not be possible either It would be more of a manual search. Thanks, Gabe. Would there be a way to sort by type and then alphabetically? Surely there has to be some way to implement this feature. Would be extremely useful in examining the samples provided for enabling items in groups that are properly named and would increase learning and workflow/sharing. Some way of keeping track of every object in the scene and being able to reference it would be worth the time to integrate it. JuBe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominik Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 8 hours ago, FoolsErrand said: Surely there has to be some way to implement this feature. Hello @FoolsErrand and welcome to the forum. I agree that a search function or even some more managing options would be good. But as it is at the moment this is not easily possible. The layer's order is their stacking order. If a reordering (e.g. by type or name) would actually reorder the actual order of the layers it would completely ruin the design. In my opinion the only way around is is to introduce layer properties or labels (whatever they are called) that can be searched and filtered independently of the actual stacking order. But this would need additional programing. It's not as easy as it looks. Cheers, d. elguapo and JuBe 1 1 Quote Affinity Designer 1 & 2 | Affinity Photo 1 & 2 | Affinity Publisher 1 & 2 Affinity Designer 2 for iPad | Affinity Photo 2 for iPad | Affinity Publisher 2 for iPad Windows 10 21H2 (19044.2251) 64-bit - Core i7 - 16GB - Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M iPad pro 9.7" + Apple Pencil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elguapo Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 +1 for searching layers by name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZufDraw Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pligus Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Raym Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 +1 please ! Even a simple Filter layer by name field would allow saving tons of time. I have to look for all layers with name rect_ID where ID was a random number, the current Select object by name function couldn't be used. :S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZufDraw Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 +1 search/filter layers plz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baytechmatt Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Yes this would be good +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bures Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Sorting, filtering and searching should be added to the layers panel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvsf Posted May 18 Share Posted May 18 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpstaton Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 On 4/5/2018 at 8:02 AM, Oshawk said: Hello, I have a situation where I have ~650 layers, all well named that I need to search through quickly to hide/show for different permutations of an image. Is there a way I can either sort the layers alphabetically to find them more easily or search for them. Thanks. I want to bump this up. Large files become unusable. This is probably a "need to have" -- I would switch off Affinity Designer for almost anything that had that functionality. Figma makes search easy. But, it alas doesn't have some of the wonderful bells and whistles. To boot, I can't find any good tutorial on how to ideally organize large files for manageability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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