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Just having some fun with a background group. I grouped up a bunch of controls, one is a field and set them to behave as a background object. All worked fine as I added cards etc. then I realised I needed to add in another field, did that and then my original group was removed and replaced with this new one.

So, do I now have to add the group to all the other cards? And in doing so, will it stop behaving as a group? For example, I want to update one of the fields on there, but will I now have to do that for each group on each card.

I'm a bit confused on this functionality and how groups should work. Any pointers would be a boon.

Andycal,
I just tried it out. I made a stack with a group that I set to Background Behavior. I added a number of new cards. Then I edited the group, dragged in a new field, and closed the group. The new field appeared on all existing cards.
Walt

WaltBrown wrote:Andycal,
I just tried it out. I made a stack with a group that I set to Background Behavior. I added a number of new cards. Then I edited the group, dragged in a new field, and closed the group. The new field appeared on all existing cards.
Walt

Hmm. So maybe I've made an almighty cock-up somewhere. If you delete the group, then add a new group and set that to background, does it appear on all cards?

It does not appear to. I tried, made an empty stack with 4 cards, created a group, set background behavior, and it did NOT appear on the previous cards. I don't know if there is a way to do it beyond pasting it back into all previous cards.
Walt

The new background group is only automatically added to new cards - but you can 'place' it on the older cards (check out the 'Place group' submenu of the 'Object' menu)

Jan Schenkel.

Sorted now. It was a mixture of problems confounded by the fact I really didn't 'get' groups. Thanks guys, I 'get' it now!