'Select layouts' dialog box

Depending on the tool you have activated, you can select one or more layouts in the Select layouts dialog box. You can specify the scope of the layouts displayed.
To find entries in the layout structure, enter a search term in the box at the top and press the F3 key. To rename a layout, select it and then click it again or press the F2 key.

The following options are available for defining the scope of the layouts displayed:

• Select the relevant node and expand it including all its subordinate entries by clicking in the menu bar. Click to collapse all entries.
  Click to display the selection that was current when you opened the dialog box.
• You can use the shortcut menu of the All layouts folder to specify whether to display all layouts or selected layouts only. When you select "Show layouts in use only" at bottom left in the dialog box, Allplan only displays the layouts that are in use.
  You can also use the shortcut menu to sort the layouts numerically or alphabetically.
  

  You can specify which layouts displayed in the All layouts folder. You can either display All layouts or show selected layouts only. To select layouts, type in their numbers separated by commas or spaces. To select a range of adjacent layouts, enter the first and last layout number.
  For performance reasons, layouts 1 to 1000 are displayed by default.

  If you want to display layouts 1 to 10, layout 15 and 20 and layouts 25 to 29, enter the following: 1-10,15,20,25-29. The current selection is displayed on the shortcut menu.

  It is also possible to display the layouts in use only.

  Note: You cannot specify which layouts are displayed in the other layout folders. These folders always show all the layouts assigned and associated.

  Note: If you have switched off the display of the All layouts folder in the Open on a project-specific basis: layouts dialog box, the All layouts folder is also hidden here.

• You can use the Used layouts, Empty layouts and Linked layouts check boxes at the bottom of the dialog box to filter the layouts by type. The check boxes that are actually available depend on the tool you have selected. The selected setting is used as the default when you open this dialog box again.
• Use the Layout filter. For more information, see filtering layouts.
  

The following options are available for selecting one or more layouts:

• Select the check boxes of the relevant structural levels and layouts. Selecting or unselecting a layout or linked layout automatically activates or deactivates the corresponding layout within the entire layout structure including all linked layouts.
  When Allplan expects you to select a single layout and you click a structural level, Allplan selects the first layout of this structural level. When Allplan expects you to select a number of layouts and you click a structural level, Allplan automatically selects all subordinate entries of the structural level clicked. When you click the check box while keeping the CTRL key pressed down, Allplan only selects the layouts that are directly assigned to the structural level in question.

  Tip: Before you select multiple layouts, it is a good idea to click Unselect all to ensure that no layout has already been selected inadvertently.

• You can also use to retrieve a layout selection you have saved as a favorite. Click to save the current selection as a favorite.

  Note: The folder where the favorite file is saved depends on the setting you have made for Proposed folders for saving favorite files in the Adjust dialog box of the Open on a project-specific basis: layouts dialog box. By default, the layout selection is saved in an XML file in the ...\selections folder.