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Losing selection when undo

  • June 8, 2021
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Digital Shamans

Hi there.

 

Classic situation… I click to select multiple nodes. By accident I moved them. I can’t undo it, without losing selection.

 

I hope there is functionality I simply don’t know about rather than Miro not being developed well enough in that regard.

 

Cheers,

DS

 

Best answer by Robert Johnson

@Digital Shamans -The behaviour you are experiencing does seem to hold true when using both Ctrl+Z or the undo button in the Miro interface, both in the browser and desktop app (at least in Chrome on Windows 64-bit).

I suspect retaining selection information on undo was never considered as the purpose of undo to revert a change and selecting objects does not change their state.

If you were not already familiar with the shortcut, and your nodes are fairly close together, you could use Shift+drag rather than Ctrl/Cmd+click to multi-select the nodes again. 

If you would like for Miro consider making this a better user experience, I’d recommend adding “Remember object selections on Undo” as an Idea in the Wish List category.

If you do create a Wish List Idea post, I would also recommend that you post a link to it back here, so that future readers of this post can quickly get to and vote for your Idea.

Lastly, don't forget to vote for your own Idea.

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  • June 8, 2021

@Digital Shamans -The behaviour you are experiencing does seem to hold true when using both Ctrl+Z or the undo button in the Miro interface, both in the browser and desktop app (at least in Chrome on Windows 64-bit).

I suspect retaining selection information on undo was never considered as the purpose of undo to revert a change and selecting objects does not change their state.

If you were not already familiar with the shortcut, and your nodes are fairly close together, you could use Shift+drag rather than Ctrl/Cmd+click to multi-select the nodes again. 

If you would like for Miro consider making this a better user experience, I’d recommend adding “Remember object selections on Undo” as an Idea in the Wish List category.

If you do create a Wish List Idea post, I would also recommend that you post a link to it back here, so that future readers of this post can quickly get to and vote for your Idea.

Lastly, don't forget to vote for your own Idea.


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