"Collapse All" Option in the Layers Panel

[Jonesy21]

9 hours ago, LPJ said:

+1

Yup agree with what eobet says. 

Based on my experience, you can technically select all (ctrl + A) those layers, but it only collapses those groups that are visible. Hidden groups that have been expanded were not even included in the select all (ctrl + A) list. (I'd also have to manually click through to hide them)

Would really help to be able to set a shortcut for this too.

This seems to be a great start, thanks for the advice....I can click the top most 'child' in a layer and 'right click, control' does the job, just right. Next step is to create a shortcut for this......

[wacheski]

+1

Yes please. 

[Intuos5]

+1

Would be very useful

[DaveLawrence]

Amen, this currently is a PAIN.

Would you want to spend your time clicking 40 triangles to close up 40 layers?

What if I do 40 files (which I will.) That is 1,600 triangle clicks!!

This isn't even a feature request.

Isn't this basic human decency to not torture someone with clicking a thousand triangles?

If I wanted to do that instead of designing, I'd be playing Tetris.

And I'm saying Tetris, because this layers panel is from that era!!

(But I love your guy's export options. Very good!! It's the main reason I am trying out the program.)

Edited February 3, 2022 by DaveLawrence

[Jonesy21]

 

By SerpentEagle, 
February 18, 2019 in Feedback  

 

Almost three years on and it seems this is still being asked for.... is anyone at Infinity listening?

[Catshill]

16 hours ago, Jonesy21 said:

 

By SerpentEagle, 
February 18, 2019 in Feedback  

 

Almost three years on and it seems this is still being asked for.... is anyone at Infinity listening?

To infinity and beyond?

[Jonesy21]

pun intended....... Affinity/Infinity

[Columbo]

+1

[pruus]

+1

[HarriG]

+1 an absolutely essential core feature for daily work! And a keyboard shortcut would be optimal.

[Julien Riesen]

+100

[joe_l]

In the meantime you can select all layers in the layers panel rightclick one of them and pick Collapse or Expand Selection from the context menu. But yes, a dedicated button would be nice or even nicer a keyboard shortcut.

[Julien Riesen]

Didn't know about this one, thanks! Though it unfortunately doesn't seem to be possible to assign a shortcut to this function... I didn't find it in the list at least. 

[Yves Signer]

Layer Management Improvements

I think it's quite essential, I'm surprised it was not implemented yet +1

// Another thing that would save a ton of time is to be able to search and rename layers

Edited May 13, 2022 by Yves Signer

[Jan Blahut]

+1 please, please!

[Jonesy21]

Three and a bit years now...... still waiting

[Tazintosh]

Seriously Affinity… Seriously…

[Frank.]

im not sure if I just haven't found it yet since it seems such a basic function. But when you click visibility in the layers panel you need to be able to use a modifier key to "solo" the selection.  Or do I really need to manually select all other layers and then untick visibility to only see the layer I have selected?

[Julien Riesen]

1 minute ago, Frank. said:

im not sure if I just haven't found it yet since it seems such a basic function. But when you click visibility in the layers panel you need to be able to use a modifier key to "solo" the selection.  Or do I really need to manually select all other layers and then untick visibility to only see the layer I have selected?

You can press option + click on a layer to solo it. 

[Frank.]

1 hour ago, Julien Riesen said:

You can press option + click on a layer to solo it. 

Thanks.  I had tried all the modifier keys, but I clicked on the tick visible box instead of just clicking the layer. Stupid. I think its time I read through the list of key commands. 

[August R]

Adding my voice to the chorus... +1

[Jonesy21]

Good news everyone....one can collapse the layers in Affinity 2 - still no shortcut (that I have found) but hopefully you can see on the attached screenshot how they have incorporated it.... a sort of hash key symbol for the 'parent' layer then 5 small blue bars for the 'child' layer (not sure if parent & child is the correct terminology, but you understand what I mean)

The only thing is, I don't need the layers to expand every time I click on an object, most times it's just not necessary, but as yet I haven't found a way to lock this!

[Brian_J]

1 hour ago, Jonesy21 said:

Good news everyone....one can collapse the layers in Affinity 2 - still no shortcut (that I have found) but hopefully you can see on the attached screenshot how they have incorporated it.... a sort of hash key symbol for the 'parent' layer then 5 small blue bars for the 'child' layer (not sure if parent & child is the correct terminology, but you understand what I mean)

The only thing is, I don't need the layers to expand every time I click on an object, most times it's just not necessary, but as yet I haven't found a way to lock this!

The icons on the left side of layers identify the layer type — # is an Artboard layer and the blue horizontal lines are a Vector (Layer) layer. Clicking the left side of a layer or group collapses it, but not its children —  this is the same in V1 to V2.

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/aboutLayers.html

V2 did add a way to collapse all layers/groups. Right-click any layer or group in the Layers Panel and select 'Collapse All Parents.'

[BunnyD]

What Brian_J said,  Right-click on a layer and select "Collapse All Parents" towards the bottom of the menu.

[Jonesy21]

Is there an answer to this yet?

'The only thing is, I don't need the layers to expand every time I click on an object, most times it's just not necessary, but as yet I haven't found a way to lock this!'