jatclat Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 My Assets panel is empty, and refuses to accept assets, in both Photo 1.7.2.471 and Publisher 1.7.2.471. It works okay in Designer 1.7.1.404. I exported Designer's, and imported them into Publisher. Publisher now lists the category, but doesn't give access to the assets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted September 13, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 13, 2019 Could you upload the asset file here please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jatclat Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 Okay, done. But this is the Designer assets file that does work. In Photo and Publisher, there is no file, and the Assets Panel refuses to accept an asset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted September 13, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 13, 2019 Could you provide a screenshot of the assets panel in Publisher. When you say accept an asset do you mean drag and drop assets or you cant add an asset using the menu item? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jatclat Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 Help says I can either drag and drop, or ‘click a subcategory's options menu and select Add from Selection.’ I can’t do either of these. If there is a menu item for it I haven’t spotted it in the menu, or in Help. What am I missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jatclat Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 Here is the screenshot of the assets panel. The IOS 12 is the assets file I imported from Designer. I only did this as a way of seeing whether I could get the assets panel to work. Before I imported it, there was nothing there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 In Assets make sure you have created a category using the hamburger menu next to the Assets tab Once created that new category will have its own hamburger menu where you will find the option "Add from Selection" just select something in your document then use that option to add it to your newly created category Drag and drop has never worked in Windows it only works on a MAC Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jatclat Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 I like the quote! Following your instructions I can create a new category and rename it. But clicking 'create subcategory' does nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted September 16, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 16, 2019 It should create a sub cateogry such as Assets, Assets 2 etc you're not getting any of those ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jatclat Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 Something seems to have changed since last time I wrote. I don't know why. The asset file IOS 12 which I imported from Designer now appears in all its glory, and I can copy assets from it to my documents. Also, I'm managing to create subcategories like Assets 2, etc, that you refer to. But I can't add anything to these subcategories. When I drag something across, it disappears altogether. Even the already populated I0S 12 subcategories won't accept anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 16, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 16, 2019 Hi jatclat, Select the object on canvas then go to the Assets panel and select Add from selection from the subcategories menu icon on the right of the subcategory header. The Windows version doesn't support drag and drop from canvas to the Assets panel (it just moves the object to behind the Assets panel to the canvas or pasteboard area). Are you still having trouble adding them if you follow these steps? jatclat 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted September 16, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 16, 2019 Drag and Drop does not work on Windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jatclat Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 Thank you both. Add from selection now works. I don't know why I couldn't get it to work before. It would be helpful to edit the Help file to make it clear that drag and drop doesn't work in Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Is the Windows Help file wrong when it says that drag and drop works? Or is it a bug that drag and drop doesn't work on Windows? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 16, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 16, 2019 Hi walt.farrell, Yes, currently drag and drop is only supported/implemented in the Mac version. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 1 hour ago, MEB said: Hi walt.farrell, Yes, currently drag and drop is only supported/implemented in the Mac version. In which case, please fix the Windows version of the Help Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michail Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 2 hours ago, walt.farrell said: In which case, please fix the Windows version of the Help Instead of correcting the help, it would be better to support D&D in Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 13 minutes ago, Michail said: Instead of correcting the help, it would be better to support D&D in Windows. Yes, of course, but it sounds like Serif does not consider this functional discrepancy to be a code bug. (I disagree; any functional difference not mandated by the capabilities of the OS should be considered a program error, in my opinion.) But if it's not a code bug, it must be a Help bug. Michail and jatclat 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michail Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 12 hours ago, walt.farrell said: But if it's not a code bug, it must be a Help bug. It may be cheaper to customize the code than to change the help (including translations). I hope Serif knows how to do it, and it just doesn't have a high priority for her. The most Windows users intuitively try D&D first. They don't search first in any menu, especially since D&D functions in the opposite direction. jatclat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jatclat Posted October 12, 2019 Author Share Posted October 12, 2019 Sorry to say I'm back to not being able to add things to Assets, despite the instructions above. Since I last asked, I've installed the latest download. That's the only reason I can think of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 35 minutes ago, jatclat said: Sorry to say I'm back to not being able to add things to Assets, despite the instructions above. Since I last asked, I've installed the latest download. That's the only reason I can think of. When you say "latest download" which one do you mean? And you're saying that when you select an object, then use the hamburger menu on the Assets panel and choose Add From Selection the asset is not added? What kind of object are you trying to add? Can you give us a screenshot of the object, and of the expanded Asset panel after you've tried to add it? Also, have you tried configuring the Assets to "Show as List" (via the hamburger menu on the panel, rather than on the category)? Sometimes Assets show up better that way. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jatclat Posted October 12, 2019 Author Share Posted October 12, 2019 Oh sorry, mistake by me. The Assets panel was indeed receiving objects. But I was adding text frames and shapes with no fill. As a result the asset wasn't showing in the Assets panel at all. Is there some way to make such things visible in the Assets panel? I've got 1.7.3.481. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jatclat Posted October 12, 2019 Author Share Posted October 12, 2019 I've just received the email suggesting 'Show as list'. Just what I needed, thanks. That'll do. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Patrick Connor Posted December 19, 2019 Staff Share Posted December 19, 2019 We have made fixes/improvements to this area (Cannot drag objects into Assets) of the program in the latest Windows customer beta of Affinity Photo and/or Affinity Designer, and will be available in the next Affinity Publisher 1.8.0 beta build. If you would like to try these changes the beta software is available in the forum posts listed below. The 1.8.0.526 beta builds are in links at the top of these beta forum posts. Affinity Photo 1.8.0.526 for Windows Affinity Designer 1.8.0.526 for Windows Once these programs have been through a full beta process the change will be released in a future free 1.8.0 update/patch to all customers. Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Cook Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 I have an embedded layer with two adjustment layers. I can't get it to add to the Assets Panel. "Add from Selection" doesn't work. Is the fact that it is embedded be the cause? Other items have been easily added. I used "Place" to bring it into the file and it embedded itself without giving me the option. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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