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Hello,

Issue: When I view the list of Groups that can be placed on a card using the Object > Place Group menu I am surprised to see one of my groups showing up dozens of times.

This confuses me because I can only find a handful of the instances of that group throughout my stack. I used the "Find and Replace" tool that searches names of objects and I found exactly the ones I expected. I was hoping to find one card that had dozens of instances but didn't.

Possible source of the problem: For reasons that escape me now ( this stack is a tad old and I just picked up the project again ) I copy lots of the the groups from a source card to several destination cards on openStack. I am careful to delete them all from those destination cards as a clean-up measure before I copy them over to make sure I don't end up with duplicates on those cards.

Summary: Where do I look to find the numerous duplicate instances of the group that is listed numerous time in the Object > Place Group menu?

The list of groups may not be updating. Try closing the stack and removing it from memory, then reopening it.

Is there a reason you are copying groups instead of placing them? If there are no changes to the copies, placing is more appropriate and will avoid the problem.

Jacque,

Thanks for the idea but unfortunately closing the stack and removing it from memory didn't help.

I'll take a look at removing the code that copies the stacks.

Thanks,


Steven

I resolved the issue by creating a new stack and moving all the cards to it along with the script of the stack.

I wrote a simple script to do the copying of the cards then copied the stack script by hand. When I viewed the Object > Place Group menu the numerous repeated items were gone.


Steven