Lock Group View Mode with document container (not a folder)

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When I’m viewing the contents of a container that is a document, not a folder, the menu Navigate->Editor->Lock Group View Mode isn’t active.

I can reproduce it with the tutorial by selecting “Main Interface” document group, enter Scrivenings mode, cork board, or outliner… the menu won’t function.

MacOS Sierra 10.12.6
Scrivener 3.0

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Lock Group View mode is a feature I’d missed before. Looks useful, but you’re right, the menu is only active for Folders AFAICT.

But testing further: if you tick the option Preferences > Behaviours > Folders & Files > Treat all documents with subdocuments as folders then the menu item does become available for document groups.

So it’s a question for Keith whether this is a design decision, I suppose.

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Indeed, this is a design decision. Only folders (or groups treated as folders) enter group view mode by default, so this only applies to them. So not a bug, and the same as 2.x behaviour.

All the best,
Keith

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Ah. I hadn’t played with this feature much, probably because I use documents as containers but don’t always use the feature to treat them as folders.

FYI, what I wanted was this: whenever I click on particular document containers, I want those specific containers to display in Scrivenings mode. I have divided some document into paragraph-level documents to make it possible to link to specific sub-documents within that group, but I always want to display the parent and its children as a single contiguous document when I click on the container.

I don’t want that for every document container–I’d like to pick-and-choose. Is that possible?

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It is possible - the feature works per folder - but you do have to turn on the Preference to make it so that text containers work like folders.

All the best,
Keith