Preserve Highlighted Items in Editor

[MainOffender]

The editor should be more forgiving when you've highlighted a bunch of records for mass editing. For instance, say I'm scrolling through a list of 2,000 workers, looking for 100 I want to mass-edit an attribute onto. One accidental click into a worker's profile will erase all the selections I've made so far. Lately, I've taken to never using the mass edit on more than five records at a time for fear of having to start over. Not a pleasant user experience!

 

The highlighting tool also isn't compatible with the search bar. Searches clear any highlighted items. I'd love to be able to search-highlight-search-highlight until I've got my list ready. This would save me a lot of scrolling and the accidental clicks that come from that. A few less battles to fight with the editor would be welcome.

 

(As an aside, a lot of these issues are exacerbated by the lacking Search options in the Editor. For instance, not being able to filter workers by Attribute in the Editor forces me to work off a longer list of data, which in turn makes the editing more time consuming and more prone to accidents. I've never understood why the Editor doesn't offer the same search options as the in-game worker search. The Editor's search functions should be MORE robust, not less.)