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Select all Comment Tools and send them to back

df
8 - Asteroid

Hello,

i have the same problem like in this post https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Comment-Send-to-back/td-p/43964?trMode...

 

Some Comment Tools are above other tools.

Is there a way to select all Comment Tools at once and send them to back?

You can use Find Tool and then search for Text 'Comment' to get all you Comment Tools but as fare as i can see there is no way to select them all together.

 

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BenMoss
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus
I imagine if you open the workflow XML you could find the property
associated with the comment boxes position and do a find/replace against
them all with 'back' or whatever the associated property is.
df
8 - Asteroid

Hi @BenMoss 

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

Unfortunately i can't find the property which i have to edit.

 

ToolID="101" is in front

ToolID="99" is in back

i can't finde a difference which indicates if it is in the back or front

 

<Node ToolID="101">
      <GuiSettings Plugin="AlteryxGuiToolkit.TextBox.TextBox">
        <Position x="2970.013" y="990.271" width="384" height="336" />
      </GuiSettings>
      <Properties>
        <Configuration>
          <Text>Text a</Text>
          <Font name="Arial" size="12" style="0" />
          <TextColor name="Black" />
          <FillColor r="179" g="247" b="159" />
          <Shape shape="0" />
          <Justification Justification="4" />
        </Configuration>
        <Annotation DisplayMode="0">
          <Name />
          <DefaultAnnotationText />
          <Left value="False" />
        </Annotation>
      </Properties>
    </Node>
	
<Node ToolID="99">
      <GuiSettings Plugin="AlteryxGuiToolkit.TextBox.TextBox">
        <Position x="3402.012" y="858.3574" width="168" height="156" />
      </GuiSettings>
      <Properties>
        <Configuration>
          <Text>Text b</Text>
          <Font name="Arial" size="12" style="0" />
          <TextColor name="Black" />
          <FillColor r="132" g="224" b="240" />
          <Shape shape="0" />
          <Justification Justification="4" />
        </Configuration>
        <Annotation DisplayMode="0">
          <Name />
          <DefaultAnnotationText />
          <Left value="False" />
        </Annotation>
      </Properties>
    </Node>
jdunkerley79
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

The ordering is controlled by the placement in the XML file.

 

If you want all the comments to be at the back then in a text editor find each node with:

Plugin="AlteryxGuiToolkit.TextBox.TextBox"

Cut the node and paste at the top of the nodes section.

When you click send to back, all it does is reorder the node to the top of the list.

 

 

df
8 - Asteroid

@jdunkerley79 

 

i hoped there is a easier solution.
I guess i'm faster when just clicking all the comment tools.

The main problem is, that i use 'container' tool and comments within this container takes so long to send to back (Alteryx freezes for some minutes). I pulled the parts out of the container.


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