Editing linked files - confused result

[iaing]

Right now editing linked files is a little confusing - if I place a Designer file in Publisher as linked, and click 'Edit Document' it opens in a new tab and I can choose to edit it in Publisher mode, or with Studio Link switch to Designer mode, switch back to the first tab and the 'linked' file has updated. But if this is a linked file; I think one of two things should have happened at this point:

1. My linked original Designer document should have been updated as well - if I chose to use linked documents that's because I want any changes I make to take effect in all documents that use that resource.
2. Failing that, the file should have switched to embedded (with a warning that that would happen if I went ahead and edited)

Instead, though the file is still linked, if I now go back and open the original of the linked file in Designer, it hasn't updated with the changes made in Publisher.

Further, if I go back to the original Designer file and make changes there and save, in the Publisher file, it correctly shows the file as updated in Resource Manager, but if I update from there, there is no warning that 'local' edits to the file (within Publisher) will be discarded.

 

[walt.farrell]

Yes, that's how it works right now. For editing purposes, Edit Document (used with any file that is not a raster image format) saves the edits only to the embedded copy of a Linked document.

Edit Image (used with raster image files, JPG, TIFF, PNG) will save to the linked original.

Serif have, if I remember correctly, acknowledged this inconsistency, but I don't recall if they've said what they plan to do about it. Perhaps one of the Serif staff query the Developers to find out.

 

[iaing]

Fixed in the latest beta (1.8.502) - - nice work Affinity!