Automatic layer/group naming
Hello Folks,
Since layer names become more important. My idea is to have the group name proposed by Adobe XD.
This mainly makes sense if there is a textfield contained in the group and we could leverage this very specific text field entry to populate a default name for the group.
So let's imagine I am designing a list of contacts and I will create several people cards would contain elements as Name (filled with Robert), Phone number, Picture and card background.
If by grouping XD would allow me to reuse the input with in a textfield as group name this would be a time saver.
So XD would propose Name according to textfield (either Name or Phonenumber) and I could afterwards change which one.
After this XD could even rename the sublayer to RobertName, RobertPhone, RobertPicture, RobertBackground.
I am saysing this since it would ease the new animation features which base on "naming the layers".
Cheers,
Antonio
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Cubelodyte
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Interesting idea, but I would certainly want it to be something a user could turn on or off in Preferences.
Personally, I'd settle for having a new group default to "Rename" mode with the focus on the group name.
Perhaps not everyone cares what the group name is, but I suspect most designers do more often than not.If the new group defaulted to "Rename" mode, hitting <Enter> or simply clicking away would leave it as "Group 1" (or whatever) without actually interrupting work flow. So, it would not impact working behavior in any negative way. However, it would save an enormous amount of time in naming groups if one could simple click <ctrl-g> and then start typing; the current alternative being that one has to take one's hand off the keyboard, grab the mouse, find the group, and then successfully double click without opening the group instead of putting it into "Rename" mode.