Plant IDs VW2024

[Laura Stone]

  

 

If I duplicate a plant style and edit it doesn't seem to like any other Plant ID than the one it already defaults to, the name was definitely not a pre-existing symbol or plant ID

[Pat Stanford]

It does not have to be a plant, it could be any resource (Class, Symbol, texture, worksheet, line type, etc.) that is using that name. Double check that you don't have something else that already has the name you want to use for the Plant ID.

 

 

[Laura Stone]

Hi Pat,

 

I made up a ridiculous name to make sure there wasn't any resource with that name, this is new in v2024.

 

Laura

[Pat Stanford]

Dang, I was hoping it was something simple.

 

What happens in a new blank file? Import a plant style, duplicate it and see if you get the same error.  If you don't then there is a possibility of file corruption.

 

If it occurs in a new blank file, then it it likely a bug.

[Katarina Ollikainen]

@Laura Stone, I don't see the problem - I can duplicate a style and change the ID. Do you have the Latin (botanical) name or the style name the same as the original?

[Laura Stone]

Hi Katarina

 

Sorry this has taken a while, but I can change the latin (botanical) name, it just seems to be the plant tag/ID that it doesn't like.  I can edit the plant style name manually in the resource manager but not the plant tag/ID.  I've tried it in a brand new drawing with nothing else in it and it still happens.

 

Laura

 

[Laura Stone]

I think maybe what's happening is when I change the Plant/ tag ID and then try to use Plant tag/ID as the name formula it sees the name as being a duplicate of another resource i.e. the plant/ tag ID.  If I first change the plant/tag id and then save and change the name manually it says eg. CorSan-2.  This didn't happen in VW2023