How to select One " color " property on several Layers ?

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I think I understand.

Say you have an expression on the fill color of a shape.

You would select that fill color attribute, go to Edit>copy expression only, then select the fill color of another layer and paste that expression onto that shape layer's fill color.

But what if you have hundreds of shape layers?

It would take forever to select each fill color individually and then paste the expression.

Simply selecting the layer alone does not work because this creates a new group.

And even if the search bar revealed only the fill color as you you asked in your original post,  you would still have to select each attribute individually.

So how do you select a specific attribute on hundreds of layers at once so you can paste an expression?

There may be a way to do this natively in AE but I do not know it.

And you would think there'd be a ton of scripts that could do this but I only know of one.

It's a feature in a script called Midas by Mt. Mograph.

It's called "Grab" and it works by selecting the attribute on one layer, then shift selecting all the other layers of which you want to select that attribute & running the script.

The script costs $30 and has many other features which you may or may not find useful.

Honestly, for me the Grab feature alone, is worth the $30 because I know of no other way, & no other script that does what it does.

I have some ethical issues with this plug-in due to the fact that it pushes content and updates silently...which infuriates me but that's just me.  I mean who do they think they are, Adobe or something?  And would not recommend it

if not for the fact that it does exactly what you seem to be asking for.

Maybe if I have interpreted & described your problem correctly somebody with more knowledge than me will know of a way to "Grab"

attributes the way you need.

If not then I DO recommend the "Grab" function Midas by Mt. Mograph which now has an option to turn off auto update thanks to me personally raising heck about it.   I believe it has a 7 day free trial if you want to try it out.

WARNING: THIS VIDEO HAS AUDIO

Select all the shape layer you want, and THEN search for Color.  See what happens.

And while you're at it, change the Fill color on one layer while they're all selected, and see what happens.

you could just select all of them and use the tools menu for changing the color and it will change for all of them (for all the fills in all the shapes):

if you need more selective control you might want to consider a script to help you with that. like this one:

Explode Shape Layers 3 - aescripts + aeplugins - aescripts.com

"Now, your new shape layers probably have a tonne of strokes and fills that need adjusting-- that's what Select Fills and Select Strokes are for. One-click buttons to select all fills or all strokes in your comp, or hold shift to find any fills or strokes with the same colour as the selected."