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Miscellaneous Quality of Life Fixes

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So I've logged thousands of hours into Roll20 at this point (4500 roughly) and here's just some little things that could be improved upon without diving into the huge feature overhauls that the platform desperately needs but have already been covered in other posts like the Foreground Layer one. 1. Layering needs more finite control. Send backwards as well as Send to Back would help make a difference.  2. Grouping objects together almost always misbehaves. Dragging and dropping grouped objects is only possible if you click on it, then click and drag as opposed to just dragging it where it should go.  3. Uniform scaling. Scaling 2 items simultaneously just  straight up doesn't work. Could save a lot of time if it did.  4. The ability to sort our marketplace purchases in the Marketplace Purchases section would be really useful. Mine are all over the place as they are sorted alphabetically.  5. When we add marketplace items to library folders, why are they added to recent uploads? It buries all of your recent uploads when you're just trying to sort the order of items. 6. When trying to delete the huge mass of recent uploads caused by issue number 5, it's frustrating that you can only select 1 token at a time and there's no box select or shift+click select like in windows.  7. When selecting multiple tokens in the menu, it'd be really handy if we could add them all to a chosen folder. Presently upon selecting lots of tokens, the only thing we can do with them is delete them. Being able to bulk-add tokens to a folder would be a life-saver for efficiency and organisation.  8. Copy-paste often doesn't retain layer orders. I've not yet figured out the logic it employs yet. It seems to change every time I do it.  9. Since loads of market-place providers don't tag their items correctly, it'd be nice if we could do that in-engine without having to manually add the token to our library and do it there.  I've really liked the last few updates that have been pushed out. Own music, own animations, the new lighting system, all of that was a big hit for me. I'm looking forward to seeing what this can become. 
Just discovered the "Filter out items already in your library" button. No idea how I've missed that all this time but it resolves issue 5 for me. 
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Kraynic
Pro
Sheet Author
If you click on an item you uploaded in your art library, it will bring up a view of whatever folder that item is in.  You can select and delete multiple items from there.  If you have multiple items selected, you can drag them all to a folder at once.
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Gold
Forum Champion
1. That kind of layering is called Z-order.&nbsp; That would be a good stand-alone Suggestion thread, "Add Send Backwards &amp; Send Forwards to Z-Order". 2. Long-standing known bug, or at least the Roll20 Devs used to be aware of that glitch.&nbsp; It's been like that for many years.&nbsp; The method to workaround that you said, is necessary, unless/until they fix that. 3. Hold ALT key when scaling multiple items.&nbsp; If ALT is not held, the items will each Snap To Grid independently, and a fraction of difference can make them change aspect ratios compared to each other. Holding ALT overcomes this and allows multiple items to be scaled identically (for me, anyway, i do it a lot). . . . 6. I think there is a way to mass-delete or multi-delete Library items, unfortunately I haven't experienced that to describe how. Anyone know? 7. Tokens in a Folder? You mean a Folder in your Library, or something else? (Tokens don't go into a Journal folder, Characters do, that's where I'm confused on this line item). 8. This is a severe bug involving Z-Order on Duplicate Page, that was introduced when the new Duplicate Page feature launched, that Roll20 has not really acknowledged this bug (that I've seen) after numerous user reports of it that went unresolved.&nbsp; One user posted multiple times that it broke his gameplay method and he'd have to leave Roll20, and then he left. The same type of Z-order bug you're seeing on Copy-Paste also happens if you Duplicate a Page that has both graphics assets, and drawings (lines, shapes, text tool areas).&nbsp; It's been like this for a few months so far, since November or December 2020.&nbsp; Please post your Comments about the Z-order layering issue in this thread in hopes of getting developer attention to this problem: <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/9487966/updated-page-and-token-settings-bugs-and-feedback-thread/" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/9487966/updated-page-and-token-settings-bugs-and-feedback-thread/</a> Good luck &amp; thanks for bringing these up especially #8 Angry_Rope said: 8. Copy-paste often doesn't retain layer orders. I've not yet figured out the logic it employs yet. It seems to change every time I do it.&nbsp;
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I'll try to select items and move them to a folder in large numbers again but last time I tried it, it just placed them all on the map behind the folder I was dropping it into. I'll give it a try. Thank you for the alt+scaling hint. I'll try that tonight! And yeah you can make token folders. It's actually super useful for organising them if you have hundreds like I do (I draw a lot of tokens for my campaigns, and organise a lot more from other artists after purchases). You can create folders for tokens by right-clicking the menu whilst in the tokens tab.&nbsp;
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Roll20 Dev Team
Pro
Marketplace Creator
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