Properties window tabs collapse every time you select a different item

When you select an item like the Size or Position tab in the Properties window and click the dropdown arrow to open that tab so you can manually enter numbers into the x, y or z values it opens and works fine, but if you select another item that tab will be closed on the new item and on the previous item if you go back to it.

When you are working on multiple items in Studio and clicking back and forth between them it’s become a pain to keep manually reopening tabs that used to stay open when you opened them.

It seemed to start about a week ago, not sure, but I’d hoped it was just a temporary change to the way that Studio has worked for years.

Please change it back to the way it’s been for years. Sure it’s great if you have a bunch of tabs open and you want them all to close each time you select an item, but I’m pretty sure if someone has the tab(s) open it’s because they were using them and need the tabs open to make similar changes to multiple items. It can get quite tedious to reopen them every time.

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Hi @Scottifly! Got feedback that Properties is working as intended, please see detailed explanation from engineer below:

The Properties widget used to create an item for every existing property possible on Studio startup (nearly 2000 or so properties shown in the API Dump) for the entire lifetime of the program and then selectively hides/shows properties based on the selection.

With the recent Attributes changes, it was obvious that this was not scalable going forward.
For dynamic properties like attributes, tags, etc, we can’t predict every possible one and pre-populate the widget. As a result - we now create the items based on the selection (which also provides performance benefits). Naturally, their state will not persist throughout the entire lifetime of Studio anymore.

If you have specific use cases for preserving collapse state for properties (just within the Studio session, between Studio sessions, etc), please file a feature request for us look into!

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Here was the Feature Request I submitted after realizing I’d submitted this Studio Bug report already in early January:

Even though I understand how it makes sense using the new system to benefit performance, I’ve requested that users have settings available so their Properties window opens the same way all each time. For example if I want the Position drop-down open all the time I’d select that as an option.

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