UnNesting Nested Groups

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Sannyasin Sivakatirswami <katir at hindu.org> wrote:
> I seem to have gotten myself in a fix  I can't find
> a way out of:
> 
> Make a group... lots of controls, name it "base
> controls"
> 
> Fumble a bit with mis-selections and click the
> "Group" icon on the menu 
> bar inadvertently, maybe twice, and now have in the
> Application Browser 
> (where the following GRP represents the group Icon)
> 
> GRP: Base controls
> GRP:     group id 1239
> GRP:         group ID 1240
> GRP:            group ID 1241
>                         field FirstName
>                         Field Last Name
>                         btn: "Listing"
>                         etc. (some 40+ more
> controls)
> 
> 
> Now, these controls were originally in the group
> "Base Controls" and 
> now they have mysteriously moved to an "interior
> group" with no name, 
> Since there a lot of data already entered, deleting
> groups is not an 
> option...  i can click on the group and edit it..
> "(Base Controls is 
> selected first) click again and get the next group,
> click again, get 
> the next group, then click a third time and finally
> I am selecting 
> individual controls in the group ID 1241...
> 
> How can one un-nest this mess and get back to
> simply:
> 
> GRP: Base controls
>   		field FirstName
> 		Field Last Name
> 		btn: "Listing"
> 		etc. (some 40+ more controls)
> 
> Now, undoubtedly my ineptitude created this
> situation, but it seems  
> that somehow the interface shouldn't allow one to
> get into such a 
> fix... or at least provide an easy way out. If one
> tries to edit the 
> interior group and paste these back into "Base
> controls" group... all 
> data on all cards is lost, even though Base Controls
> is placed on all 
> cards..
> 
> Of course one can export all the data, clean up the
> interface and 
> reimport it... but this has happened before... how
> to get rid of the 
> redundant groups and retain all data?  Probably
> something simple I am 
> missing here.
> 
> 
> 
> Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
> 

Hi Sannyasin,

Check out the 'relayerGroupedControls' global
property, find out the layer of the outer group, and
change the layers of the individual controls.
I haven't tried it with fields that have sharedText,
though, so you might want to copy the stack first.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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