Swappable UI Items When Designing

[theLateWizard]

I made a post about this well over a year ago and it got zero attention.  I refuse to believe I am the only one who finds this frustrating, so perhaps I explained it poorly.

I use Affinity Designer primarily for Web and Application design work. 

Now often, I'll have a specific element, button, interface, whatever that I am working on and am not quite sure of the design yet.  I'll draw up a couple of alternatives, and swap them out to see which I like best.  It is this swapping that I find so annoying!  Constantly having to find the one that is presently displayed, click it to hide it, then the one I want to show, and click to show it.

I wish there was a way to link specific items together as being a single unique 'item', that only one of will every display at a time.  Then I can quickly and easily swap between all of them by simply clicking the check mark next to the one I would like to see.

Please consider working this as a feature into Affinity Designer.  It is something I do all the time and find incredibly frustrating.

[Malauch]

+1

[_nils]

Would a function in the Assets or Symbol Panel be helpful to "Replace current selection with this asset" or, for mass operations, replace all instances of the selected asset with this asset" ?

[theLateWizard]

@_nils I suppose, but that's different from what I'm asking for here