Thank you all so much. I’ve played around with this in a dummy scene a bit and it’s starting to become a bit clearer.
What’s getting me each time is that I can’t apply a single action to an object and have that affect ALL it’s children. I have to remember to select the parent and each child before I move them otherwise it only moves the selected object(s) but the parent-child relationship persists. It does have a logic but a) if you move the parent in the viewport all the children follow so why not do it in the View Layer? and b) cos the children are nested in the view like they are in a folder this simply reinforces that I expect to be able to to move everything at once.
Is it possible to manually position the objects within a collection so you can keep related items together? eg I have an item called Head and a model called Pot and I’d like to move them so Head is immediately under Pot instead of being forced to sort alphabetically cos that separates them and makes it harder to find models.
