Hi All,
So I've been struggling with the object manager in Draw. Every time I move an object from one layer to another, or copy and past anything in the object manger, ALL the layers automatically expand! This is very frustrating to me and really kills my workflow. I tried unchecking the "Expand to show selection" as well as "Edit across Layers" etc, no luck. Any suggestions to prevent this? This also happens when importing anything into any layer!!
Please see video > https://vimeo.com/175860675
Anyone else thinks this is a pain to work with? I'm coming from Adobe Illustrator, and in my opinion, the way it handles layers and objects is far superior to CorelDraw.
There is an option to show "Current page, layers only" at the top of the object manager, but why is there no option to include objects too?
Where can I drop a suggestion to the CorelDraw team? Is there an official page dedicated to user requests? Thanks all...
mcm said:So I've been struggling with the object manager in Draw. Every time I move an object from one layer to another, or copy and past anything in the object manger, ALL the layers automatically expand! This is very frustrating to me and really kills my workflow. I tried unchecking the "Expand to show selection" as well as "Edit across Layers" etc, no luck. Any suggestions to prevent this? This also happens when importing anything into any layer!!
I'll agree with you that I don't like some of the behavior of the Object Manager. If I'm dragging an object onto the object manager, then I think that the desired behavior would be that a layer expands only if I "hover" over the layer name long enough. I can see a benefit to that, as the expanded layer would allow the dragged object(s) to be placed at a particular place (order) within the contents of the layer, or to be grouped with something else already present in the layer - all within the same operation.
I don't see any benefit to having it expand a bunch of other layers during such an operation. As you observe, it makes a mess of the Object Manager, and you have to interrupt your workflow to collapse the layers.