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Antoine
Active Member
October 20, 2022

Nested property hidden with multiple selection

  • October 20, 2022
  • 104 replies
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Been playing around with the “expose nested properties” feature currently in beta.
One of the great uses of variant properties is the ability to batch edit property values on multiple selected components. That use doesn’t carry over to exposed nested properties (yet I hope).

Demo file to help

When selecting one component instance exposing nested properties, said properties display fine. Add another instance of the same component to your selection (using Shift+Click), and the nested properties outright disappear from the right panel.

I haven’t seen this issue raised elsewhere! Do you experience it too?

104 replies

Tingting_Cheng
New Participant
November 21, 2022

Just discovered this issue too! Hope it fill be fixed as it doesn’t make sense to manually edit each instance because of this.

Jordan_Smith2
December 14, 2022

I’d love to see this added as well. Definitely a gap in the feature.

January 5, 2023

+1. I have the same issue/request.

Jesper_T_Hansen
January 11, 2023

+1 Loving the nested properties, but this is a major pain at the moment

afc
New Member
February 23, 2023

Just discovered this doesn’t work today. Makes it almost not worth the feature if this isn’t fixed. But will be a huge time saver if it is.

February 24, 2023

+1 this needs to be fixed to make this feature more useful

tlapetite
February 26, 2023

+1, would be a real time & pain saver

Hans_Humblet
March 22, 2023

Ever since the properties have ben added to components, it has been a great improvement in my workflow. Especially the fact that I can select multiple instances and change a propery for all of them in just one go. Hallelujah!

However when I’m using the “expose properties from nested instances”, the nested properties are shown when selecting 1 instances, but when I select multiple, they disappear.


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Tingting_Cheng
New Participant
March 22, 2023

Yes, noticed this as well. Very annoying, hope they fix it soon!

March 27, 2023

I share you pain. This forced me to stay away from nested instances in situations where I need to do edit multiple instances at the same time.

I came up with a workround for this that isn’t the cleanest, but it works. Instead of using nested instances, you can use the instance swap property. Instead of creating variant in your components, create a separate component of each variant and when you create the instance swap property in your main component, you can select the “variants” as preferred values in the instance swap property. When you select multiple instances of your component they will all display their properties and you can edit all at once.