Moving grouped objects to new layer

[ptc123]

I often need to move a grouped object from one layer to another. Is there away to have the group take on the color of the new layer?

[Box]

Change the setting in the layers window via the little submenu to Color by layer.

Yours will look a bit different as this is the PC version.

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[TIG]

Alternatively - if you don't want to color everything by layer [i.e. only some objects to get their layer's color], then you can use Ruby to get the layer of the selected object[s] and then get the layer.color, from that you can make a new material [named after the layer] using that color's RGB specification, and apply that new material onto the selected object[s].
By naming the material after the layer you can test if that material has been made previously, and reuse the existing material, rather than make a new material every time...

I that's the requirement then I can easily post a code-snippet to do this...