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Auto Add Properties Tied To An Object To Collection
When creating a collection, if there could be a way (maybe a button toggling add properties from object) to auto-add properties from any specific object or template in a similar way when you create a set in Anytype based on a specific object, it brings into that set all the properties tied to that object.
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Can you be more specific with exactly what you're looking for. Rather than describing how the feature works, it's much better to describe what problem you're trying to solve. That is, what's your use case/what are you trying to accomplish?
Good Day Kaye.
My sincere apologies for not being specific.
Use case: So in Anytype, I would create a collection of different types material such as books, documents, notes, videos, etc.
Usually the process of adding them to a collection along with their properties in their own respective view, is done one-by-one except for the properties that are already in the collection.
Then afterwards their properties have to be arranged in the order you may want them to be in. The work around for objects that share similar properties, is to simply copy the view and just make minor tweaks.
I noticed with Queries(I said set earlier on my apologies). When you make a query based on a specific object, the query automatically adds the properties attached to that specific object (say notes has date, about). This depends on what properties are attached to that object when creating a new object or modifying existing objects.
For collections, the process is done manually one-by-one and in some instances the workaround does make the process more efficient. So I was hoping if there would be a way to allow collections to also auto add properties arranged in that objects specific order to a collection.
Once again my apologies for not being specific enough.
I think it's a little bit hard to understand what you're requesting for because we're mixing terms from Anytype, which can mean very different things on Anytwo.
"So I was hoping if there would be a way to allow collections to also auto add properties arranged in that objects specific order to a collection."
As far as I'm aware, Collections already add properties to an object based on the order it's set (the same for all objects of that Collection).
I think a screenshot or recording would be better.
Okay I can definitely take some screenshots/screenrecord. I'm not a tester for AnyTwo so I am not aware how collections functions but this is a something I thought might be useful based on my use with Anytype.
Ohhh, you're not a tester. I think it's best if I close this feature request for now. It does not make sense to process this when you are unfamiliar with Anytwo. Applying the Anytype paradigm just leads to a lot of confusion.
I suggest you wait to be a tester and then make suggestions based on your experience.
Okay that is fair. My apologies, I was under the impression it was also open to non-testers to make idea suggestions here. My sincere apologies once again.
You're right that I did say that, but I suppose in some areas it's easy to process a contribution but in other areas it's not. How we handle properties and collections in Anytwo is not the same as in Anytype.