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= Selection Panel =
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[[JOSMImage(dialogs/selectionlist,48,middle,margin-right=20,link=)]] ''keyboard shortcut'': '''{{{Shift+Alt+T}}}''' — one of the [wikitr:/Help/ToggleDialogs#Toactivateawindow JOSM panels]

'''This panel shows the currently selected objects (nodes, ways, closed ways and relations).'''

== Selection ==#Selection
* Selection is independent [wikitr:/Help/Dialog/LayerList per each layer]
 * Selection in ''other layers'' will be preserved after [wikitr:/Help/Action/Search an unsuccessful search] - it is safe to change (or even erase) selection in one layer and expect to selection in other layer to kept
 * Selection in ''[wikitr:/Help/Dialog/LayerList#LayerButtons the active layer]'' '''will be empty''' after ''unsuccessful search''
* There are at least 2 tools to recover history of last selected objects:
 * [#SmalltriangleinSelectbutton Small triangle in "Select" button from this page]
 * [wikitr:/Help/Action/Search#Fetchexternalfileandreplaceselection Special syntax in the search action] - selection based on list of objects save in the file
* Selection is ordered (internally, but you cannot control order except by re-selecting objects); practical use of it can be seen in [wikitr:/Help/Action/MergeNodes MergeNodes]
* This panel has not 3, but [#Controlbuttons 5 control elements in total]. Triangles are often overlooked at first, but provide a very powerful tools
* List of currently selected object(s) can be erased:
 * after {{{Left mouse click}}} on empty space in [wikitr:/Help/MapView viewport (main editing window)]
 * after using [wikitr:/Help/Action/Select one of many Deselection tools]
 * after running search query (explained above)
 * after {{{Escape}}} [wikitr:/Help/Action/UnselectAll tool]
* Items in ''Selection panel'' can be [#Subselection subselected]

=== Subselection ===#Subselection
Items in selection can be "selected" again (subselected)
 * Mouse click to subselect single object
 * Hold {{{Ctrl}}}
  * to subselect more than object
  * to remove subselection from objects

Single node ''Spielemax'' subselected in screen below

[[Image(selection_dialog.png,link=)]]

=== Context menu ===
||= Icon =||= Name =||= Description and notes =||
||  [[JOSMImage(dialogs/autoscale/selection)]]  ||\
||  [wikitr:/Help/Action/ZoomToSelection Zoom to selection]  ||\
|| Zoom the [wikitr:/Help/MapView Map view] so that only data which is currently selected is in view. ||
||  [[JOSMImage(dialogs/autoscale/selection)]]  ||\
||  Zoom to selected elements   ||\
|| Zoom the Map view so that only data which is currently chosen in the panel is in view. Zoom to [#Subselection subselection] ||

Items below apply only to relations:
||= Icon =||= Name =||= Description and notes =||
||  [[JOSMImage(dialogs/edit)]]  ||\
||  Edit  ||\
|| Opens relation in a relation editor. ||
||  [[JOSMImage(dialogs/delete,24,link=,middle)]]  ||\
||  Delete  ||\
|| Deletes the relation. ||
||||
||  [[JOSMImage(dialogs/relationlist)]]  ||\
||  Select in relation list  ||\
|| Selects the relation in the [wikitr:/Help/Dialog/RelationList relation panel] ||
||  [[JOSMImage(dialogs/select,middle)]]  ||\
||  Select relation  ||\
|| Selects the relation in the main map selection. ||
||  [[JOSMImage(dialogs/select,middle)]]  ||\
||  Select relation (add)  ||\
|| Adds the relation to the main map selection. ||
||  [[JOSMImage(selectall,middle)]]  ||\
||  Select members  ||\
|| Selects all members of the relation in main map selection. ||
||  [[JOSMImage(selectall,middle)]]  ||\
||  Select members (add)  ||\
|| Adds all members of the relation to the main map selection. ||
||||
||  [[JOSMImage(dialogs/downloadincomplete)]]  ||\
||  Download members  ||\
|| Downloads all members of the selected relation, except for new relations. ||
||  [[JOSMImage(dialogs/relation/downloadincompleteselected)]]  ||\
||  Download incomplete members  ||\
|| Downloads all incomplete members of the relation. ||
||||
||  [[JOSMImage(help/internet)]] ||\
||  Open/View "link" \\ Search on ... \\ ([wikitr:/Help/Action/Tag2Link Tag2Link])  ||\
|| Optional items to open websites corresponding to the tags of selected objects in the panel,\\ like `website`, `url` or `wikidata`, in the external web browser ||

== Naming ==
* [[JOSMImage(data/node)]]'''Nodes''' are shown with their names (likewise their OSM-ID) and their position in brackets.
* [[JOSMImage(data/way)]] '''Ways''' and [[JOSMImage(data/closedway)]] '''closed ways''' are shown with their names and if no name-tags exist with their main tag (e.g. highway, landuse, railway ...). If JOSM is not able to interpreted any tag the OSM-IDs are shown. The numbers of nodes the ways consist of are always shown in brackets.
* [[JOSMImage(data/relation)]] Relations are shown with their type and in brackets the name and the number of members.

== Panel buttons ==#Controlbuttons
=== Select ===
[[JOSMImage(dialogs/select)]] '''Select''' selects the objects currently selected in the selection panel.

==== Small triangle in Select button ====#SmalltriangleinSelectbutton
With the small triangle [[JOSMImage(svpDown)]] button within the [[JOSMImage(dialogs/select)]] **Select** button '''you can restore previous selections from a drop down list''':

[[Image(9900-en-selection-history.png,link=)]]

Objects that were filtered out (by [wikitr:/Help/Dialog/Filter filters]) will be displayed as "Unselectable now".

=== Search ===
[[JOSMImage(dialogs/search)]] '''Search''' feature: it allows a very sophisticated [wikitr:/Help/Action/Search search].

==== Small triangle in Search button ====#SmalltriangleinSelectbutton
Like ''Select'' the small triangle [[JOSMImage(svpDown)]] button within the [[JOSMImage(dialogs/search)]] '''Search''' button also offers a drop down search '''list of previous search'''.

[[Image(9900-en-Search button-triangle.png,link=)]]

[[Image(9900-en-Search button-triangle-autocomplete in search action.png,link=)]]

=== History ===
[[JOSMImage(dialogs/history)]] '''History''' opens the [wikitr:/Help/Action/ObjectHistory History Browser]. For each [wikitr:/Help/Dialog/SelectionList#Selection selected] [wikitr:/Help/Concepts/Object object] a separate window will open.

== Advanced Preferences ==
There are some advanced settings which can be changed in the [wikitr:/Help/Preferences/Advanced advanced preference]:

* `osm-primitives.showid`: set to `true`/`false` to display/hide the osm id of the object in the list
* `osm-primitives.showcoor`: set to `true`/`false` to display/hide the coordinates of the object in the list

== See also ==
* [wikitr:/Help/Action/Search Search]

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