"Toggle active all" for all documents in a folder

[HeyMyian]

This is a suggestion for the context menu on a document or folder in the project tree. I'd find it useful to be able to toggle the active status for all documents inside a folder or inside another document at once.

[vkbo]

What's the use case here? Taking out an entire chapter for instance?

Would it be recursive? I generally avoid destructive recursive features. Here, "destructive" is merely on the active setting, so it's not a big deal, but ...

Edit: Keep in mind that with the new Manuscript Build Tool, this flag will not be important to take documents out of the final manuscript. There will be new settings for that.

[HeyMyian]

The use case is, I toggled everything off to include only one document in the build. When I wanted to toggle everything on again to make another build, I noticed that folders also have the symbol ("mixed states") and I tried my luck. It would be a function I logically expect there, alongside "expand all" and the likes. And it would indeed toggle all documents inside it, recursively.

But I forgot it's going to be included in the new build tool. In that case, absolutely never mind this feature request.

[vkbo]

Yeah, that's what I suspected. After the next release, the need to toggle the active/inactive state will be significantly reduced.

Here's an example of the selection feature of the new tool. It will look slightly different, but this is what it will do.

Screencast.from.2023-05-22.22-10-20.mp4

[vkbo]

You will probably also find this feature useful when it is added: #1001

[HeyMyian]

I'm looking forward to it ☺️ I'm going to export ALL THE THINGS

[vkbo]

I'm scheduling this request to be closed when the new build tool is merged. It will solve the underlying issue as I understand it.

[vkbo]

I think the new build tool should solve your issue. I posted a video in #971 if you want to have a look 😄