Group objects for easier movement

[Franjo Stipanovic]

Hi! How can I group objects so I can easily move them on the board?

[Stefan Draber]

Hi @Franjo Stipanovic 

keep Shift pressed and then select the objects you want to group. Then you can move team all together.

Unfortunately I don't know any way to make this grouping persistent. It will disappear as soon as you click anywhere else on your board.

[Franjo Stipanovic]

Thank you! :)
That's helpful. It's a shame it can't be persisted :( 

[Mike Villis]

Leveraging sections is the other approach for enduring the grouping of shapes and being able to move them around together

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/use-sections-to-organize-your-work/ 

[Franjo Stipanovic]

Thank you, Mike, but in some group situations, I don't want to have an additional object (section) around.

[Mike Villis]

Totally reasonable

[Swati Das]

Hello,

I've just started using this little thing called section. I just drag it on top of objects I need to group, or the other way round, create a section and drag objects onto it. It's been working great for me. 

[Franjo Stipanovic]

Thank you, grouping objects in the section is helpful, but not applicable in every case. Sometimes I'm building a complex object that consists of multiple objects, which I group and work on as one (duplicate, etc). I don't want an additional frame in those objects. 

[James Rickards _Spark-Nel_]

I just checked and there currently isn't a feature request for this feature, so I suggest creating one from their support portal.

If you want this, then report a "technical issue" and then ask the support person to create a feature request ticket, then post a link to the ticket so others can vote for it.

You'll need to provide a decent reason and examples as to why the existing section feature isn't sufficient for your use-case.

At least, that's how I've managed to initiate several changes to jira/confluence over the last 20 years.