I am using Global Guides to create grids across multiple adaptive views.
They work great in normal pages, but when I open a master, the guides are not displayed. In RP8, global guides persisted across pages and masters. I even created a master from a page that had Global Guides to start with. (Guides are set to visible in both views)
Is this intentional?
Page
Master - no guides are present
Hi UX-AD!
Hmm, this behavior looks to be unexpected. Just to confirm, it sounds like you ran into this issue when converting a widget (or group of widgets) that was placed on a page with adaptive views and global guides into a master. Is this correct? If this is the case, to further troubleshoot this issue, could you please see if removing the adaptive views from this newly created master allows the global guides to reappear? You can remove the adaptive views by navigating to the masterās Style pane and click the āRemove Viewsā link. Please let me know what you find!
Thanks for the reply - masters do not seem to have any awareness of the Global Guides created on Pages, no matter what process I follow. Iāve decided not to continue troubleshooting this issue and go back to RP8 since snapping to guides and grid was not working consistently either, and often the guides will just disappear from the screen until I scroll the page up and down to cause them to re-render.
My experience has been that adaptive views have their own guides, which makes sense to me, since they have different widths by definition, thus necessitating a different set of guides. - I can see this being a problem with āmaster viewsā though, since theyāre meant to be independent of the adaptive views.
Iāve also experienced guides disappearing, requiring a zoom change to āre-drawā the screen - this kind of thing happens a lot and seems to be a limitation or under-utilization of whatever renders the UI.
Iāve also had issues with snappingā¦ Itās not near as strong as it should be. In most cases Iād rather struggle with getting something to not snap than the other way around. Iāve gone so far as creating widgets that exist only to snap to because the guides arenāt having much of an effect.
Thanks @JimJam I use masters to create things like Top Nav bars and Footers, which are definitely dependent on the adaptive views and their guides. Popovers, etc, not so much, so I was interested to see how RP9 would reconcile this issue. I was ok with seeing the adaptive Global Guides on my masters; I would just disregard them when they applied to not responsive widgets.
Also having a lot of issues with the redrawing of guides and the snapping being inconsistent.
Iām having similar problems with Guides in RP9. They were appearing on all adaptive views for my pages but not my Masters. As soon as I added them to a Master, they started only appearing on the BASE for my pages and Masters. Can someone from Axure weigh in here? It seems RP9 was not ready for release and I need to decide whether to revert.
More info: I went to my āHomeā page, into each adaptive view, and manually created the same preset grid. Then I went into the only Master I have so far, and did the same for each Master View. Even though the āCreate Global Guidesā checkbox was checked. Wondering if Iām missing something - ideally we should be able to define Adaptive Views and Grid/Guide settings at the project level, so that all items created would inherit by default (but could be overridden if needed). Instead, Iām having to define the same things (views and guides) for every page or master I create. It didnāt seem this difficult in RP8 but I could be missing somethingā¦ help!
Iām also having issues with maintaining guides in masters. Once adaptive views are added, the global guides disappear, which makes sense in terms of master view being apart from page adaptive views.
But once I create local guides for each master view, not forgetting to uncheck āCreate as Global Guidesā, guides from all master views after some time pile only in the base master view and disappear from inheriting views.
Seems like Iām not the only one. Does somebody know any way to use guides in masters anyway?
Also came here to ask this question about global guides not showing up in Masters. Current workaround is setting page-specific guides inside the Master but this isnāt ideal either. Itās like the global guides just disappear inside the Master once you convert a group of elements into the Master! Thanks for reading
Hi all,
Thanks for letting us know about this! We do have a bug report on file regarding the behavior mentioned earlier regarding global guides and adaptive views, and Iāve gone ahead and added a note regarding this topic to that report for our teams to review. However it looks like we donāt have anything filed on the master behavior youāre running into just yet. I just tested out some behavior in some recent versions of Axure RP 9 on Windows 10 and Mac 10.14.6, but I wasnāt able to reproduce issues seeing global guides in master views under these circumstances. Here are my steps for reference:
In steps 3 and 4, I was able to see a new master open on the canvas and show global guides.
If youāre seeing issues while following the same steps in a recent Axure RP 9 build, or if youāre seeing issues while following different steps, please let me know. If this only seems to be occurring with certain project files, or under more complex conditions, or in a different OS version please feel free to send project files and additional information along in this topic, or email our support team at support@axure.com for further investigation.
Thank you!
Iāve only recently upgraded to Axure 9 and am beginning to wish I hadnāt.
Global guides only seem to appear in masters if you create a new mater with no adaptive views.
You can add āmaster viewsā but there are no presets or ability to use the view points already set up in the document.
All my existing masters now cannot be edited with guides, and I canāt create new ones either because Iām using adaptive views, which makes life really difficult and is a massive backwards step from axure 8.
I see this thread has been going for over 12 months - when is this going to be rectified?
Same issues here.
Iām on Axure RP 10, macbook air M1 2020, macOS Monterey 12.1.
Working with different global guides across adaptive views.
On component created > global guides not present ā¦currently, I copy paste them from the pages/widgets which is tedious
On file close/open > global guides from all adaptive views get combined in the first adaptive view and disappear from other views. So only first adaptive view in the tree has the global guides but then not only the respective view but also from others. Itās a mess.