Sorry if I missed it but I’m trying to input a series of bows (as guitar pick direction for the truth) but popover closes after I input one… Where am I wrong?
Thanks,
Art
What if you select all the notes first? You should be able to input them all at once.
Jesper
The playing techniques popover doesn’t work like the lyrics popover, which stays open as you move through a series of notes. It works more like the tempo popover, which needs be explicitly opened for each tempo mark you want to add.
But as @jesele notes, you can select a group of notes and apply one playing technique to all of them at once.
If you are alternating up and downbows, you’ll need to select first all the notes that need one, and apply it, and then repeat for all the notes that need the other. You may also find it simpler to apply one upbow (for example), and then Alt/Opt+click it into position on other notes. (And then repeat for downbows.)
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Thank you both, @jesele and @asherber, sorry for my delay in replying!
I tried both methods you suggest and they are very useful even if I would prefer a “lyrics like” way of inputting playing techniques; sometimes I don’t understand well why this or that is not possible in Dorico but this is not a complaint, just a curiosity.
Best,
Art
Slightly alternately, one could enter the first down-/upbow pair, select both, then opt/alt- click copy them to successive beats, in this (silly for being unnecessary for a violinist) case the F5 and C5:
Thank you @judddanby 
An expert guitarist doesn’t need any picking indication as he/she can choose depending on situations and personal preferences (there are various picking thecniques, actually) but in my case, writing for my pupils, I would put them as much as I can… I’ll try your way too!
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Totally understood, @arfo1962. Pedagogical materials can need lots of “extras!”
BTW, the multiple-select-then-opt/alt -click approach works for as many items as you care to select (in the off chance this is news to you). You could do whole measures, lines, etc.
Also, R (for repeat) works, but with the proviso that you’ll have to shift them over rhythmically with opt/alt + cmd/ctrl + ➞ to move them to the correct placement.
On Windows it’s Alt-click.
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Thank you again, @judddanby I have to try Repeat in this context, I’ve used it yet but for others cases.
@Janus thank you, I’m on a Mac 
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Ah, yes. I’ll emend.