Thanks for the update on the aTbRef documentation, Mark. It’s always very helpful.
I checked the changelog regarding the text pane’s multi-item selection. Since updating to v11.7, I have been unable to see or edit text when multiple notes have been selected. Is there an update or a new setting?
Odd. I’ve seen no reports of this during betas.
[I should note, this isn’t a feature I use in my own work, so I don’t see it often]
But, testing in a new v1.7.0 (b797) TBX:
I can edit text:
This would suggest the issue is either in your app or doc as opposed to in all docs/installs. Does this happen with all your TBXs. If not, I’d look for factors like automation in the TBX. Without seeing your TBX, it is hard to guess the source. Are there any rules/edicts/agents that affect with not title or text as this might be a factor?
This is one where you might need to contact tinderbox@eastgate.com as they may need to look at your affected file. I’d agree that is seems off that the feature used to work but doesn’t in v11.7.0, though as per above the basic feature does work and in your case some other interaction has been affected. Looking at the v11.7.0 Change log I don’t see anything that suggests it would affect this feature.
To dig further here in the forum, it would help if you can share a document that shows this effect and which other users can replicate.
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Thank you for testing it. I use this feature every day. After my test, I see it only appears when you select more than 30 notes. I will report this issue to tinderbox@eastgate.com.
test - edit text multiple notes.tbx (168.4 KB)
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This looks like is a performance optimisation tweak. I’ve tested and it seems to be is tied to the selection count (disabled if N > 30) as opposed to the aggregate size of all selected $Text (I added test to some notes). However, I cannot find any such changes recorded in the (not public) ‘Notes.tbx’†. [Edit, see post below.]
I see you’ve reported this to Tech support which seems the best step here. 
†. The v6+ release notes master document, (a recent version is) accessible to Backstage members.
My error! The limit is 30 notes, not ‘300’ as I’d erroneously noted in the article Text pane multi-item selection (which I’ve just updated with the correct figure.). The pertinent test is now:
From v11.7.0, when multiple notes are selected, Tinderbox concatenates their texts in the text pane. When the selection exceeds a fixed limit (currently 30 notes) no texts are displayed , instead the pane is greyed out and a label ‘N selected notes’ is shown, where N is the count of selected notes.
The change was in b782 (part of v11.7.0).
So, if you see no text with a multiple selection and no $Text, reduce the size of the selection.
FWIW, the RN in b782 is this:
When multiple notes are selected, Tinderbox concatenates their texts in the text pane. This is decreasingly useful, and increasingly slow, as the size of the selection increases. When the selection exceeds a fixed limit—currently 30 notes— the texts are not displayed.
Changing this limit to 300 notes, or to a fixed amount of text, was discussed backstage and it was also my impression that the limit had been raised. I’ll double check.
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