Browser - dragging projects into a project

I thought this would be a good way to retrofit some of my old tracks with new instruments and routing/busses or to recreate a setup from an old track in a new track.  I tried dragging an existing project from the browser into an open project, but found that it didn't create the bus setup from the source project in the target project, nor did it add any of the synth rack objects from the source project.  Am I missing something here, or do I really have to create a track template using  the source track for this work properly by using the "insert from track template" action?

Given the limited data that came in and the random routing assignment the imported tracks get, I can't see much use for having the project browser allowing you to drag a project into a project.  It seemed like every source midi/instrument track gets routed to exiting synth rack objects randomly.

I haven't pulled the trigger to get Expanded, so using X1C.  According to the help manual I'm doing it the right way - dragging the project into the track view below existing tracks.

I am definitely not up to speed on X1C yet, (as it just became functional for me in October), so still picking my way through how to accomplish the most basic things in this brave new world.  I'm considering this a probationary period to see if I can get my workflow back up to what it once was with the new layouts/keystrokes/menus. 

In my attempt to un/retrain a decade+ of Sonar muscle memory, I'm going cold turkey (no fallback install of 8.5.3)  Right now, it is extremely slow-going...work 2 minutes, spend 10 minutes trying to find the equivalent keystrokes or location of functions of things that used to be automatic for me, add it to my keybindings or template / screenset to-do list.  I'm working my way through the Groove 3 and Craig Anderton videos and hoping for the best.

Thanks, Billy

I thought the import project might be useful as I create new screenset-enabled templates and projects and want to bring in some instrumentation and settings from older projects. 

I hear you on the mixed bag - I too love and hate X1's design UI/UX changes in almost equal amounts.  I've gone back and forth on the keybindings import.  Everywhere you diverge from the pack (the standardized keybindings), you have to make a mental note as to which ones are customized and which ones are "rogue" and it adds a layer of complexity to troubleshooting and when comparing your actions to others (such as the training videos) - they use a shortcut you may no longer have, or that does something different than yours.  Having a utility that prints out all of your customized keybindings and highlighted any removed standardized standard ones would be most helpful.

Knowing all of this ahead of time as I try to relearn has me somewhat paralyzed in the decisions - I can make it easier now, but find myself increasingly isolated in years to come as the standard keybindings evolve and grow and I'm off in my non-standardized world.   I could import, but many of my go-to's weren't even keybindings, just standard Windows alt-top menu functions that got axed when they got relocated into the dozens of sub-window tabs' dropdowns ( thus disappearing from normal keyboard access), leaving me to find and assign brand new keybindings to dozens of functions that were simply built-in before. 

Excellent points.  The time to fight these battles is in the early stages, before everyone works out equally awkward workarounds to overcome new design flaws and they become a new standard operating procedure.   (QWERTY anyone?).  

Otherwise you get "Everyone in my family has always lifted their leg really high when coming in the back door since I was kid" even though the broken threshold was repaired 20 years ago.

Why don't you just leave Bus view maximized in all of your screensets all the time so you can see the status of your bus mutes /solos?    And I will make my track header view an extra 4" wide just so I can see the archive status of my tracks.

I'm a big fan of getting the efficiency gains from the get-go by learning the best way to do a task and internalize it.  X1 has frankly scared me about embracing standards, since they can be yanked away en masse.