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Blender 2.8 - Adding new collection from the Objects Menu, does not add the collection to the scene
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System Information
Operating system: Ubuntu 17.10
Graphics card: GTX 1080

Blender Version
Broken: blender2.8 23284e4dde5
Worked: master 786870e26f8
Short description of error
Adding new collection from the Objects Menu, does not add the collection to the scene

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

  1. Click on the default cube
  2. go into the objects section of the Properties menu
  3. in the collections sub menu, hit add to collection. This will create a new collection called 'Collection.001'
  4. delete collection 'Collection'
  5. Cube has now disappeared from the scene.

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Event Timeline

Carlo Andreacchio (candreacchio) created this task.Nov 29 2018, 10:06 PM
Christopher_Anderssarian edited projects, added BF Blender: 2.8; removed BF Blender.Nov 29 2018, 10:37 PM
Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) edited projects, added BF Blender; removed BF Blender: 2.8.Dec 11 2018, 3:08 PM
Jose C. Rubio (jrubio) added a subscriber: Jose C. Rubio (jrubio).EditedJan 29 2019, 10:47 PM

I confirm this happens in Linux 957b4547

Unlinking the object from its last collecton shoud move it to the scene collection rather than deleting it, but this may be related to a different issue/bug.

Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) assigned this task to Brecht Van Lommel (brecht).Feb 4 2019, 1:41 PM
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to 50.
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) merged a task: T61220: Behavioural problem creating New Collection with Ctrl-G.Feb 6 2019, 1:33 PM
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) added a subscriber: Haig Petrus (hpetrus).
William Reynish (billreynish) added a subscriber: William Reynish (billreynish).Feb 6 2019, 1:37 PM

This is maybe more of a design issue than a bug. Afaik it works like this because it cam from the old Groups feature.

But in any case, yes, new Collections should be added to the Scene by default I think.

François Lavigne (Flavigne) added a subscriber: François Lavigne (Flavigne).Apr 15 2019, 7:13 PM
Rombout Versluijs (rombout) added subscribers: Jose L. Carmelo (Jose), Rombout Versluijs (rombout).May 14 2019, 5:57 AM

I still see this happening in 2.80, edbf15d3c044, master, 2018-11-28, also like @Jose L. Carmelo (Jose) C. noted earlier, deleting the Collection from the object panel also delete the mesh, which makes no sense.

What is weird is that you can select a collection in that menu but in the Collection panel you can select an existing collection like you can in the object panel.
Adding an existing collection from the collection panel could be a useful duplicate method instead of selecting and then right click "duplicate collection"

Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) closed this task as a duplicate of T53662: Usability issues with old group operators.Jun 6 2019, 7:08 PM
Kyle Youngblom (kyleyoungblom) added a subscriber: Kyle Youngblom (kyleyoungblom).Nov 5 2020, 6:14 PM
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) mentioned this in T100907: Add an object to a new collection not working.Sep 28 2022, 9:32 AM