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camilleb91882243
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December 3, 2016
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adobe XD won't let me change the order of the artboards.

  • December 3, 2016
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Made a prototype in Adobe XD, then, later wanted to change the order of the artboards in the shared view. Changed the order in shared view,  but then it won't update the link. Tried everything. Tried deleting the prototype and creating a new one, tried saving under another name...

I can not imagine that you are stuck with the order you made things in. We need to be able to move the order around!

Anyone know how to fix?

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    Correct answer ykblue

    Hi there,

    faced the same problem.
    It works, if you add ascending numbers as prefix to the artboard's title. Then everything shows perfect in the sharing mode.
    - Katharina

    20 replies

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    Alias Interactive
    Participant
    September 9, 2021

    My problem was when viewing cloud doc through the XD companion app, fixed by stacking artboards in the left layers panel, Last to first, top to bottom, (first on bottom).

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    Claes0D45
    Participant
    February 15, 2021

    Hi, 

     

    Im working in a .sd adobe document with a lot of pages . The pages in my workspace are in the order that I need, but when I export the document to the link , the pages looks in completely desorder. 

    Do someone knows how to change the orther of the pages in the export link?

     

    Thank you!!!

    Rishabh_Tiwari
    Community Manager
    Rishabh_TiwariCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 15, 2021

    Hi there,

     

    Thanks for reaching out. Please try the suggestion shared in this similar discussion: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-xd/adobe-xd-won-t-let-me-change-the-order-of-the-artboards/m-p/8748884#M692

     

    In case if this doesn't help, please share a screenshot of all the artboards in share mode and the version of XD, we'll try our best to help you with it.

     

    Regards

    Rishabh

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    ayanaa43795517
    Participant
    February 1, 2021

    I finally found a solution that works for me. The program reads the order of the artboards from left to right, top to bottom. So I arranged my artboards in this order and put a lot of spacing between the rows of artboards because the programs makes mistakes in reading the order if they're too close together. I was working with 13 artboards of varying height at the time so it that's probably what have messed up the order when XD was reading it..

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    jahlisam56539697
    Participant
    January 14, 2021

    Still waiting on a decent soution to this problem...nothng stated above helped me 

      taylorc6295319
      taylorc6295319
      Participant
      June 1, 2020

      This does not work as a solution. 

      DRobotGorilla
      DRobotGorilla
      Participant
      October 23, 2019

      62 Artboards and counting, still no way of rearranging the artboards. It just seems randomly generated.

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        MN123W
        Participant
        January 16, 2020

        So my temporary solve is...

        - Adding ascending numbers to the prefix of artboards.

        - Then exporting MULTIPLE files versus one single one.

        - In a finder window, sort by name, open whatever your "1" page

        - Then select all the rest of your pdf pages with the prefix numbers (sorting by name is key) and drag into the pdf doc underneath your first page.

         

        This saved me a lot of time.... Hope this helps!

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          christiand30122261
          Participant
          October 16, 2019

          Unreal, Adobe. How are we supposed to do a proper dev handoff if all of our artboards are out of order? It would be as simple as allowing us to rearrange the order in the share panel... 

            DRobotGorilla
            DRobotGorilla
            Participant
            January 17, 2020

            Starting page will be the artboard set as Homepage in prototype mode — or place artboards in the order you want them left to right all aligned at the top edge.

            PotterJ
            PotterJ
            Participant
            June 27, 2019

            Hi,

            I am also having this problem.  My art boards are in the correct order but the share view is defaulting to the wrong art board when the share initially opens.

            -Jenn

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            ykblueCorrect answer
            Participant
            June 27, 2019

            Hi there,

            faced the same problem.
            It works, if you add ascending numbers as prefix to the artboard's title. Then everything shows perfect in the sharing mode.
            - Katharina

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            Norbert_Kucsera
            Participant
            July 12, 2019

            Ascending numbers do not solve the problem at all. I had one artboard which was higher at the rest and dosed not matter the number it was still added at the end of the list (in preview or on the shared link).

            The solution was to add ascending numbers in front of the artboard names and also check to have the top side of the artboards aligned!!! LOL!

              brandonl41055432
              brandonl41055432
              Participant
              June 18, 2019

              I also have this issue

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              Vibrant_judge5DE4
              Participant
              October 15, 2018

              Nope, this is still an issue. Doesn't matter if I order them like exaggerated stairs, it still displays in the order it was created. You need to let us order the screens in the design panel, not on the canvas.

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