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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0002397	FreeCAD	Feature	public	2016-01-09 16:44	2021-12-04 23:20

Reporter	piffpoof	Assigned To	uwestoehr
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Platform	Macintosh	OS	Mac OS X	OS Version	10.6.8
Product Version	0.15
Target Version	0.20	Fixed in Version	0.20

Summary	0002397: Select All Children of Object in Tree View of Combo View
Description	Feature request to add an option to the contextual menu (right-click) to select all the children of the selected object. The option already exists within the Architecture workbench - although in the Architecture workbench the option only selects the children of the next level lower. This would be a time saver in multiple areas, including: - selecting all objects to Copy - selecting all objects to Delete - selecting all objects to make Visible/Invisible - selecting all objects for multi-input operations such as Fuse Objects I find with deeply nested trees of objects it is tedious and time consuming, not to mention error prone, to expand all the nested sub-layers and select all the objects at each level. Sometimes the list expands so far to the right that I must expand the Combo View rightwords far into the main window pane - this is a bother to say the least. There is a warning message "This object is referenced by other objects and thus these objects might get broken. Are you sure to continue?" that queries omissions of sub-objects. But this message is actually just a warning that you have probably made an incorrect selection. It does nothing to remedy the existing selection, you must then return and continue weeding through the objects to complete the task. This is both tedious and unnecessary in the case of selecting a complete tree. Given that the option already exists in the Architecture workbench to select the next lower level of the tree, it is probably best that both a) select complete tree and b) select next level of tree, be available off the Utility sub-menu. That way the user can extend his selection "down the tree" as needed or select the complete tree in one click.
Additional Information	There is a forum thread related to this: http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13566&sid=436c75e51bcb861146ee833a83b69b08 named "Potential Function Request - Select All Children of Object in Tree View" This feature request is also related to another feature request: 0002396: Make Utility sub-menu available in all workbenches
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FreeCAD Information

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2016-01-09 16:44	piffpoof	New Issue
2016-01-09 17:30	yorik	Relationship added	related to 0002396
2016-01-09 17:30	yorik	Assigned To	=> yorik
2016-01-09 17:30	yorik	Status	new => assigned
2017-01-11 20:04	Kunda1	Additional Information Updated
2020-12-13 00:55	uwestoehr	Note Added: 0015131
2020-12-13 01:13	uwestoehr	Assigned To	yorik => uwestoehr
2021-02-06 06:49	abdullah	Target Version	=> 0.20
2021-09-21 08:34	yorik	Relationship replaced	has duplicate 0002396
2021-10-25 17:11	uwestoehr	Note Added: 0015997
2021-10-25 17:12	uwestoehr	Status	assigned => resolved
2021-10-25 17:12	uwestoehr	Resolution	open => fixed
2021-10-25 17:12	uwestoehr	Fixed in Version	=> 0.20
2021-12-04 23:20	wmayer	Status	resolved => closed