Advanced>Group Bug Question

You have spent ten minutes searching and you found the perfect horse token, to go with your perfect rider token. To make sure it works and doesn't disappear on the map, you make the horse come to the front, and then do the same for the rider. You carefully put the rider on the horse. You then put a window around the two of them, right click to pull up the menu, and left click on Advanced, followed by Group. The two are now one object. So you move it onto the battlefield, and the one-piece looks great. On your next turn you click on the piece, and instead of the single piece moving, you discover you have dragged the rider off the horse, except the window for the single-unit is large enough to contain them both. When you go to put the rider back onto the horse, the unit moves as one again, except the rider is not on the horse. The only way to get the rider back on the horse is to go back through the steps and Ungroup it, then repeat the process to group it again. Unless I miss the point of grouping, once completed it should make the combination of objects into one object, in the exact configuration you put them in. Not only is this bug repeatable, it happens ever single time (with any type of object). Mind you, first you must click off the new combined object, before clicking on it again. If you try to copy the combined object, you can do so, but only if you have the combined object clicked first, and only after making it. All the newly pasted combined objects are not anymore glued together than the original.

You have to double click the grouped token to select all. The single click select is to adjust tokens that are still grouped like a soldiers formation. At least that is how I understand it.

That works, though not entirely. Say you have multiple horsemen, and to put the rider in the right spot you had to hold the ALT key to centre them. Once you click on a different combined object (or as you suggest double-clicking it to successfully move the combined figure), double-clicking on the original combined object moves the rider to the nearest corner (thereby undoing the ALT move to position it correctly). If people need to re-position units within the group, they could either ungroup it, or Roll20 could create a new function of Move Within Group, or perhaps hold the Select key to move within the group. If I can get the double-click to work every time without the combined objects re-centering themselves that would be perfect though.

This is more of a design problem than a bug. As Pat stated, one method of selecting the group is to double click the group. Yes, there is a chance you will accidentally move the top token when doing this and as a result it will snap to grid which will move that top token. The solution to that is to drag to select the group and then click (and hold) on the group.

I was hoping it was a bug that had easy fixes like the ones you have presented. Thank you both and to any other suggestions.

You are welcomed and if you wish to, make a suggestion post about this. There is a suggestion forum just for things like this.