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Hello! If you select an set of items in the “Filters Area” (say a set of Compositing Tags) and right click on the item to “select all - Compositing,” is there a quick way to reveal all hidden selected tags in the “Item View”?  The quickest way I know to find buried tags in the item hierarchy is to see how many of that particular tag I have in the “Filters Area” and try to find them. Would be great if there was a way to select a set of tags from the “Filters Area” and quickly reveal them all in “Item View”.

Hi Will,

Perhaps you open a new Object Manager, and set this to View>Flat Tree—and—View>Vertical Tags.

Set then the filters as you like to, because in this view the objects are no longer needed to display the tags. (second image)

Would that work for you?

All the best

Thanks for your quick reply and good tip Dr. Sassi! This technique actually works pretty well if I name all of my Compositing tags to reflect the “Objects” they are associated with. I can roll with this way of doing things for now. Though, it would be great if there was a way to reveal tags selected in the “Filters Area” in the “Item view” Hierarchy quickly. Good tip nonetheless!

Thanks!

Thanks for the feedback, Willh. :o)

The naming of elements is a good practice, but I know—in the heat of a project, it doesn’t last very long, even with the best intentions to keep going.

If you do not use Layers at all, you could drag one of the active onto a new Layer… but I guess this not really cutting it. ;o) Then filter the per Layer.

I like the Select>>Selection-Filter> Create Selection Object. It works not with tags initially, but once you have a Selection Object, you can drag and delete anything in that list. As it is indepentend from all other options, e.g., Layers, it is kind of a private list on top of everything, and stores a previous selected group.

Besides that, I guess the only option would be: http://www.maxon.net/support/suggestions.html

The “Show First Active” could have a variation: “Show Only Active”.

My best wishes

Thanks Dr. Sassi - I hadn’t tried out the Selection filter so that is another good tip All your suggestions work really well if I create and maintain the c4d file from the start of a project. I actually have that advantage so I will definitely try them out in my current work flow. I will also put in a suggestion to Maxon for the quick reveal of selected tags. I think that function would be helpful if one were to open up old / or collaboration files and needed to find tags in the item hierarchy more efficiently. Thanks for your Help!

-Will

You’re wellcome, Will! :o)

Yes, to import some other formats leaves us sometimes with hundreds of, e.g., selection tags, all named the same.

Nice that you can have that kind of house keeping from the start and get not flooded with mixed up material.

One thought, perhaps you explored that already: If you have two Object manager [2+3] open, one described as above, you can select one,e.g., Tag in one manager, click then the other one active and use the “Scroll to First Active”. … again, just a thought.

All the best

That is a nice use of Scroll to First Active - Thanks! I tried putting a shortcut to “Scroll to First Active” but for some reason it only works with clicking on its icon or executing it from the Customize Commands - anywho, having the “StFA” icon placed in the objects window like you have it in your example should work well. Thanks again Dr. Sassi!

You’re welcome, Will! :o)

The problem with the short cut—so far I can tell, that the window must be active and/or mouse over it. I notice that problem, so I didn’t suggested it above.
Nice that you had the same idea :o)

Yes, I wish it would be a mouse click less. But I guess, making it happen would limit somewhere else functionality.

My best wishes.

P.S.: not really linked to the initial question, but http://www.cineversity.com/vidplaytut/cv-object_manager_tools  might have some good tools as well, and perhaps you might suggest your idea (how it should work) here: http://www.cineversity.com/forums/viewforum/105/