Publisher: Layer/Folder/Grouping confusion

[Nexonus]

Hey,

I can't wrap my head around a feature I discovered. I seems that there are multiple ways how I can group layers.

I can either drag a textbox (or something else) near the icon of another layer so that there appears a vertical blue bar at the target layer (result is shown in Layer2 in the attached screenshot) or I can drag it so that there is a horizontal blue bar which does not fill the whole width (result is Layer1 in the screenshot).
The second option seems to be a grouping function. Just what I expected. But I can't figure out what the first option does. My layer inside does disappear on the page. And the icon is different. Also at my layer inside there is this small crop icon...

Any help is appreciated

Thanks and regards,
Moritz

[Old Bruce]

3 hours ago, Nexonus said:

I can either drag a textbox (or something else) near the icon of another layer so that there appears a vertical blue bar at the target layer (result is shown in Layer2 in the attached screenshot) or I can drag it so that there is a horizontal blue bar which does not fill the whole width (result is Layer1 in the screenshot).

Vertical bar means Clipping, horizontal bar means the text is part of the group Layer1. Draw some slightly overlapping shapes with the rectangle tool and drag them like your examples, it will be more obvious as to what is going on.

[Nexonus]

Thank you so much Bruce! :)

I assume the clipping mask works just like the one in Photoshop, right?

It now all makes sense. Yesterday I accidentally dragged an image as a clipping mask onto a picture frame and the image only appeared where the X of the picture frame was. And I wondered what was going on.