Boards
Splitting a board
Moving part of a board onto another board or into a new one, and what travels with your selection when you do.
Boards grow past the question that started them. Two unrelated threads end up side by side, or one of them turns into its own project, and by then frames are organising something that wanted to be two documents. Select the part that belongs elsewhere and move it, onto a board that already exists or onto a new one made for it. This is a move and not a copy. The items leave this board and arrive on the other one, with their files, their history and their provenance intact. ## Starting a split Select what should leave first, because both doors act on the current selection. Right-click the selection and the menu carries two rows. **Move to board…** opens the picker on every board you can write to. **New board from selection** opens the same dialog with a new board already chosen, and a field to name it. The other door only appears on a board that has got heavy. A chip sits in the bottom-left corner of the canvas once a board is large enough that Plnty has started serving lighter previews to keep panning smooth, and the panel it opens carries **Split this board…**. Both doors are hidden if you can only view the board. <!-- SHOT: the destination step of the move dialog, with the search field, the New board row at the top and three destination rows beneath it. Caption names what the second line on each row tells you: the board's item count and its own weight. --> :::note[A board cannot be emptied by a move] Selecting everything gets you a disabled **Continue** and a line explaining why. Leave at least one item here, or delete the board instead. ::: ## What travels with your selection Some things cannot be separated from what holds them, so the move expands your selection to include them and shows you the expansion before it acts. | If you select | What comes with it | | - | - | | A frame | Everything inside it | | A stack | The images and text cards folded into it | | A chain | Its steps and the outputs pinned to them | | A 3D object | Anything parented underneath it | | A shape with items attached | The attached items | | Anything carrying a comment | The comment thread | The expansion only reaches downward. Selecting one image out of a frame moves that image and leaves the frame here with one fewer item in it. The review step lists all of it before anything happens. The header counts both halves, so a selection of twelve that pulls thirty-five more along reads **12 selected, 47 will move**, and the groups underneath are **Your selection** and **Coming along**. ## Comments and tool card links Two things deliberately stay behind, and the review step lists them under **Staying behind** so you see them before you commit. A comment thread follows the thing it is about. Move the image it is anchored to and the thread goes with it; leave the image here and the thread stays here too. A comment belongs to its subject rather than to whatever was moved near it. Tool cards follow what they are linked to. A card locked to a frame travels when that frame travels, and a card whose linked frame stays keeps its place on this board and loses the link. The review step counts both cases. ## If the originals cannot be removed The order is fixed. Everything is written to the destination and verified there against the server, and only then are the originals removed from here, which is what the dialog means when it says nothing leaves this board until every item is safely written there. Occasionally that removal is refused. Plnty guards every board against losing a large share of its contents at once, and a big move landing in the same moment as somebody else's edit can trip that guard. You get a dialog headed **Moved, but the originals stayed**, confirming the items are on the destination, with **Remove originals** to run the removal again once the board is quiet and **Leave both** to keep the duplicate until you deal with it yourself. The worst outcome is a duplicate you can see and delete. ## Another workspace as the destination The picker is not limited to this workspace. Any board you can write to is on it, and choosing one in a different workspace turns the move into a copy of the files as well, written into the destination workspace's storage and charged to its allowance. That is checked against the destination's storage before anything is written, so a move that would not fit is refused up front rather than halfway through. Provenance survives the crossing. The record of where an asset was made does not change when the asset is placed somewhere else, so a moved image still names the tool, the model and the prompt behind it, and the library shelf it sits on moves with it. The picker gates on what you can do rather than on what you can see. A board you are only a viewer on never appears in the list, however visible it is to you, because a viewer connection cannot write to it.Boards grow past the question that started them. Two unrelated threads end up side by side, or one of them turns into its own project, and by then frames are organising something that wanted to be two documents. Select the part that belongs elsewhere and move it, onto a board that already exists or onto a new one made for it.
This is a move and not a copy. The items leave this board and arrive on the other one, with their files, their history and their provenance intact.
Starting a split
Section titled “Starting a split”Select what should leave first, because both doors act on the current selection.
Right-click the selection and the menu carries two rows. Move to board… opens the picker on every board you can write to. New board from selection opens the same dialog with a new board already chosen, and a field to name it.
The other door only appears on a board that has got heavy. A chip sits in the bottom-left corner of the canvas once a board is large enough that Plnty has started serving lighter previews to keep panning smooth, and the panel it opens carries Split this board…. Both doors are hidden if you can only view the board.
What travels with your selection
Section titled “What travels with your selection”Some things cannot be separated from what holds them, so the move expands your selection to include them and shows you the expansion before it acts.
| If you select | What comes with it |
|---|---|
| A frame | Everything inside it |
| A stack | The images and text cards folded into it |
| A chain | Its steps and the outputs pinned to them |
| A 3D object | Anything parented underneath it |
| A shape with items attached | The attached items |
| Anything carrying a comment | The comment thread |
The expansion only reaches downward. Selecting one image out of a frame moves that image and leaves the frame here with one fewer item in it.
The review step lists all of it before anything happens. The header counts both halves, so a selection of twelve that pulls thirty-five more along reads 12 selected, 47 will move, and the groups underneath are Your selection and Coming along.
Comments and tool card links
Section titled “Comments and tool card links”Two things deliberately stay behind, and the review step lists them under Staying behind so you see them before you commit.
A comment thread follows the thing it is about. Move the image it is anchored to and the thread goes with it; leave the image here and the thread stays here too. A comment belongs to its subject rather than to whatever was moved near it.
Tool cards follow what they are linked to. A card locked to a frame travels when that frame travels, and a card whose linked frame stays keeps its place on this board and loses the link. The review step counts both cases.
If the originals cannot be removed
Section titled “If the originals cannot be removed”The order is fixed. Everything is written to the destination and verified there against the server, and only then are the originals removed from here, which is what the dialog means when it says nothing leaves this board until every item is safely written there.
Occasionally that removal is refused. Plnty guards every board against losing a large share of its contents at once, and a big move landing in the same moment as somebody else’s edit can trip that guard. You get a dialog headed Moved, but the originals stayed, confirming the items are on the destination, with Remove originals to run the removal again once the board is quiet and Leave both to keep the duplicate until you deal with it yourself.
The worst outcome is a duplicate you can see and delete.
Another workspace as the destination
Section titled “Another workspace as the destination”The picker is not limited to this workspace. Any board you can write to is on it, and choosing one in a different workspace turns the move into a copy of the files as well, written into the destination workspace’s storage and charged to its allowance. That is checked against the destination’s storage before anything is written, so a move that would not fit is refused up front rather than halfway through.
Provenance survives the crossing. The record of where an asset was made does not change when the asset is placed somewhere else, so a moved image still names the tool, the model and the prompt behind it, and the library shelf it sits on moves with it.
The picker gates on what you can do rather than on what you can see. A board you are only a viewer on never appears in the list, however visible it is to you, because a viewer connection cannot write to it.