Idle Factory Not Implemented?

The hotkey to select idle factories is F2 but this doesn't seem to do anything. I found a previous thread from Nov last year where it was noted that this had not been implemented at that time. Is this still the case? Or is this a bug or am I just misunderstanding how this works?

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It is still there, but it has been changed how it works.

 

If you put your factories into control group(s) (Ctrl + [Number]) then they are picked up by the idle factories check, and the F2 key works. I would prefer to not have to put them into control groups to enable the idle factory shortcut, but there are some benefits to the way it works now that I do not use.

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Quoting Moomo, reply 1

It is still there, but it has been changed how it works.

 

If you put your factories into control group(s) (Ctrl + [Number]) then they are picked up by the idle factories check, and the F2 key works. I would prefer to not have to put them into control groups to enable the idle factory shortcut, but there are some benefits to the way it works now that I do not use.
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Thanks for the clarification. I hope this is changed in a patch so that a control group is not required. I also hope that additional options (e.g. select all factories (even if not idle), select all idle armories, select all armories, etc) are added as well.