Stuck with variants groups

jdmuys

• April 20, 2020 03:47

I can create variants, and they show up in the browser with a small numeric label at the top-right of the thumbnail, but I never get the top *left* icon, and I can never get the "Collapse" or "Expand" family of menu items to become enabled.

What did I miss? Could someone give me a "for dummy" list of steps I can take to get to the point where I can collapse?

Thanks

 

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  jdmuys

  • April 20, 2020 08:44

  I tried again with a new session and everything works correctly: as soon as I create a new variant, the first variant has the group icon at its top left, and Collapse… is enabled.

  So for some reason, the misbehavior only happens with this session I am working on. Is there some session setting that could interfere? is there some cleanup or reset process I could do? I really would not want to start a new session from scratch: I have hours of work invested in it.

   

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  Ian Wilson

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  • April 20, 2020 08:45

  

  Are you looking at them in their actual folder, or in an album or smart album? In a smart album (such as all 5 star images) you can't collapse them (because it is possible that some variants of the image are in the smart album and some aren't).

  Also, in any case the collapse icon only appears in the browser in the top left of the No1 variant, not all of them.

  Ian

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  jdmuys

  • April 20, 2020 09:06

  Hi Ian and thank you very much: you got it! I was looking in a smart album, namely the one named "All Images".

  Your explanation makes sense (even though you could argue it would not apply to *that* smart album). But that's *really* misleading.

  Thanks in any way. You solved it :-)

   

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