Reorder objects within a repeat grid in the layers panel
When designing complex widgets that are reproduced as repeat grids I oftentimes need to rearrange the z-order contained layers within the repeat grid.
Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment. If this is not supported as a feature the interface should indicate so. Now the contained layers look like regular layers outside a grid, but behave otherwise.
Joachim Tillessen
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Joe Morris
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Yes, having the app rearrange the layer order with repeat grid would be super helpful. Love the feature by the way!
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Heidi Boor
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Yes! This is very frustrating when I want to change the contents of a repeat grid. Seems like it should be a fairly simple addition since you can reorder other layers in XD. Hoping for the addition of this change soon!
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Pablo
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This is a must! It happens to me all the time, I create a grid with a lot of items, and the client adds some, I have to redo the whole thing again and again and again. Please!
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Thibaud Van Vreckem
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for some reason re-ordering layers (via drag&drop) into the layer panel is not possible for children of:
. a mask group
. a repeat gridAll the arrange commands and shortcuts (bring to front, send backward, ...) do work as a workaround.
Yet I find it way more intuitive, easier and faster to manipulate the object in the layer panel directly.
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Thibaud Van Vreckem
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as a workaround the arrange commands and shortcuts do work.
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Sam Blowes
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This is super annoying, having to clean up, un group change and reapply repeat grid...
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Jakub Foglar commented
My workaround is to temporarily move the top object to the side, drop in my images and then move back. Not ideal when working with symbols.
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I have a repeat grid made of two rectangles on top of each other. The top one has a semi-transparent gradient, the bottom one has an image fill that I want to populate with a set of images from the Finder.
The order makes it impossible to drop the set of images on the bottom rectangle – it drops in into the foremost object and replaces its fill (the gradient).
If I could drop the image set on the bottom object in the Layers panel, instead of on the canvas, it would solve this.