How to use Shape Group #s instead of layer index in an Expression

[Filip Vandueren]

1.content() doesn’t make sense, perhaps you’re looking for this:

thisProperty.propertyGroup(4)(thisProperty.propertyGroup(3).propertyIndex-1).content(1).position-[250,0];

There’s an extra invisible PropertyGroup Parent up the chain: each ShapeGroup has an extra .contents level, so we need to go up 4 groups to get to the Base “Contents” and there you want to target the previous Rectangle by index, so: “my Rectangle Groups property index -1”

(and my Group is 3 levels up, again counting an invisible “.contents” layer)

[Sandro Tagliavini]

Sorry Dan, thanks for asking.
I would like to have a flexible expression that accesses the
position of the shape layer group below it (index+1), so that
when I duplicate the group the shapes get shifted 250px
(and I would like it to work with the index rather than with
name.split(” “), so it is more flexible)
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and thanks Filip, that is exactly what I was looking for.
now I can quickly create grids by duplicating the groups…