Object > Place Group Menu with numerous repeated items

[stevenchalmers]

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?

[jacque]

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.

[stevenchalmers]

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

[stevenchalmers]

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