adding another element to an established group - storyline 2

Hi Lawrence,

I'd agree with Matthew - select them all to ungroup and use your Shift or CTRL key to keep them selecting while you select the other new item and then choose to group again. 

I have the same issue. Recreate the group is not an option for me, because the group has a lot of configurations (animations, transitions, motion path, ...) if I do that I'm going to lose all my work.

Are there any other work arround to add an item into an existing (and configured) group?

Thanks!

Hi Activica,

No changes to this set up - did you look at using the Shift or CTRL key to keep all the items selected while adding to it?

This should really be a simple select the element and right click to add to a group, which would be a dropdown menu under "move to." But, alas, it's not...

Hi Jay, 

That's a neat idea to set this up - and not one I'd heard yet. Our product team loves hearing new ideas--share yours with us right here. 😁 

Maybe just to further explain the need to such a function, groups often have triggers and animations. If you forget to group an element or have to add an element to an existing, you need to ungroup, thus breaking any programming with it.

I've been toying with motion paths, and while groups can be animated with paths, these need to be redrawn if I need to add an element. Same goes with triggers.

Did this ever get resolved?

Hi Kevan, 

This is still an open feature request with our team and this conversation is attached so that we can share updates with you here.

I wanted to share some information about how we manage these feature requests as that may be helpful.

It would be even better if it was a simple drag and drop implemented the same way they do it in Photoshop and Illustrator where you just drag an object into a group in the layers panel - so in the timeline in Storyline. Or the same way you can drag menu items to nest them in the player menu properties.  

Anything new on this? It's been 4 years and this seems like a necessity to me. If I break a group to add something new, I have to do all the animations, renaming, etc. for the new group.