How to re-dock a toolbar? (I don't mean tabs or panes)
thoreandan
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I accidentally dragged the "Help" toobar off the right side of the City Limits layout, and I see no way to dock it again, it stays as a separate floating panel when I try to put it back. Is there any way to dock a toolbar? Seems like there must be, but nothing I do works. Note that I'm not talking about panes, like "Content Library", I know how to deal with those. I'm talking about the toolbars on the edges and along the top, like "Input Output", "Help", and "Creator Tools". I disabled it and re-enabled it, and it docked somewhere completely different from where it used to be. I can just keep it disabled, I don't use it anyway, but I'm concerned that I'll drag another more useful toolbar off and not be able to dock it again, like the tools above the viewport.
I found a similar thread from a few years ago, and it seems at the time the only option was to reset the layout, which would be ridiculous. Surely the developers included a way to dock anything that can be undocked, right?
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Check that Window>Workspace>Lock Docking/Undocking isn't on. I just pulled a toolbar loose, closed DS and restarted (to make sure it was fully undocked and not remembering its state), and had no problem redocking the toolbar.
Lock Docking/Undocking isn't on. I tried restarting, no difference. When I drag the toolbar over the left, right, or top toolbar dock, it orients to the shape of that as if it is going to dock, but it doesn't, no matter where on the dock I let go of it. It just sits over it, undocked.
I've attached a screenshot, it shows one out of the many places where I have tried to re-dock it.
Well, just to wrap this up, after going back and forth with tech support I tried docking again and it suddently docked properly. So it seems like this was just a fluke. I don't know what caused it, or why it started working again, but it worked.
Not a fluke, as I have the same issue, however, it's been addressed with the beta version, so when we get the public release it will no longer be an issue!
What a nightmare. I literally spent 2 hours with this. So after retracing my steps I discovered that, for some reason only in City Scape layout, if the panes on the right are extended into the workspace, toolbar docking will not work. Click any tab on the right pane to retract it and the docking comes back. Other layout are not effected this way. So IDK.
Definitely a bug.
Are the view controls visible properly in the top-right corner of the viewport? If not, try closing the Shader panes that are docked with the Viewport and see if that also fixes the tool bar issue.
That's definitely it, I didn't realize what was different when it worked for me, but testing it now, tonyharris has pinpointed it for sure. If you have both side panels open, you cannot redock toolbars anywhere. If either one or both side panels are hidden, you can redock anywhere that it's allowed.
I don't have any tabs docked with the Viewport, I had long ago moved anything that is docked with the Viewport to one of the side panels, and I experienced the same toolbar issue. I also tried changing to cube view controls, and back to docked view controls, and in either case the only way to redock a toolbar is to hide one of the side panels.
Thank you so much for figuring this out and posting it.
I had this problem today, but I had to retract the panes on the left side of the viewport to make my floating toolbars finally dock.
Thanks! it helped me a lot
Thank you very much, thoreandan! Six years later and this is still an issue...
Glad this post was helpful, at least!
Thank you so much from 2024. You are my hero! <3 Was slowly getting an aneurysm of not being able to redock my stuff despite the tutorial video doing it without any problem