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altedie
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April 13, 2020
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Unable to change the order of the artboards in Adobe XD

  • April 13, 2020
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This appears to be a bug. I specify an order to the pages in prototype, save, update the design review link, and the order of pages at the link is the order in which the artboards were created, not the prototype order.

 

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Correct answer altedie

The Design Review will automatically include all the linked artboards necessary for the prototype to work, and exclude those which are not necessary (hence unlinked). You can see which artboards are involved (blue outlined ones), while setting the Share options. The order in which they are eventually presented with the arrows left/right doesn't reflect the way how they are positioned on your Design and Protoype canvas.


Thanks Dan, I ended up deleting the artboard that was giving me issues and was not able to replicate the problem or see if it was greyed out on Share mode.

 

The main problem I was having was the order of artboards. They were out of order (spatially) but linked in the order I wanted under Prototype. I decided to reorder them spatially to see if that made any difference, and in doing so I noticed one of the boards had a faded back blue arrow, I guess indicating it was leading to two places. I'm only linking artboards to artboards, no interactive elements within the boards, so logically having it go two places doesn't make sense. I unlinked that artboard and relinked it and now the order is fixed in share.

 

I did not see the "double arrow" before, so I'm not sure if there was an error where it was not displaying or if that's just human error on my part. Anyway moving the artboards around helped me see what was going on.

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Tawny16B6
Participant
June 2, 2021

I'm having issues with this same bug.  I have reordered the art boards.  They are in order left to right, they are numbered, I have built a prototype which articulates which order they are meant to go in, they preview in the order they are in the project, and the order I have built the prototype in, but but the link puts the last art board first.  It was never first, it was always last.  The idea that the design review refuses to follow the built prototype is an extremely frustrating bug, and makes XD unworkable.   

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altedieAuthor
Participant
June 3, 2021

I still have this problem from time to time, and sometimes I can fix it by removing all links in the prototype view, and then readding them.

Rishabh_Tiwari
Rishabh_Tiwari
Legend
April 13, 2020

Hi there,

 

Thanks for reaching out. Could you please try the step shared in this discussion: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-xd/adobe-xd-won-t-let-me-change-the-order-of-the-artboards/td-p/8748884?page=1

 

Let us know if this helps or if you need any further assistance.

 

Regards

Rishabh

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altedieAuthor
Participant
April 13, 2020

Hi, adding numbers to the artboard names did not fix the problem.

 

I also noticed if I have an artboard and want to exclude it from the prototype/link I cannot.

Peter Villevoye
Community Expert
Peter VillevoyeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 14, 2020

The Design Review will automatically include all the linked artboards necessary for the prototype to work, and exclude those which are not necessary (hence unlinked). You can see which artboards are involved (blue outlined ones), while setting the Share options. The order in which they are eventually presented with the arrows left/right doesn't reflect the way how they are positioned on your Design and Protoype canvas.

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