Devices and Circuits Appearing 3 Times on Reports

[Ian5100]

In VW 2024, when I run a report of all Devices or Circuits on my drawing, everything has 3 identical entries. How can this be resolved?

Edited June 27 by Ian5100

[Conrad Preen]

11 hours ago, Ian5100 said:

How can this be resolved?

Dear @Ian5100

 

Would you be able to share here or PM me the file in question? For any problem, the first step on our road to helping you solve it is to be able to reproduce it here. So the more information you provide the faster we get to this first stage. Ideally in general we would like to know:

1. What you were doing when the problem happened.
2. What you expected to happen.
3. What actually happened.
4. What version of Vectorworks you are running including the build number.
5. What platform you are using (Mac, Windows) and what version.
6. An example file that's shows the problem and the steps required to make it happen.
7. Screen shots or videos are also very helpful.

I completely appreciate that it isn't always possible or even necessary to supply all of these, but the more you give us the sooner we will be able to help you. Any customer-supplied files are treated in Vectorworks as highly confidential and we will only use them to diagnose the issue.

 

At the moment I know that you are running VW2024 and that you are seeing multiple entries for Devices and Circuits.

 

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

 

Conrad

[Ian5100]

I'm running 2024 Build 721259 on a Windows machine, and this happens when I'm adding devices and circuits normally. Here is a screenshot of what is happening. You can see that there is (seemingly) 1 instance of each object, but they appear 3 times in the reports. Additionally, if I edit a field within the report, the other 2 entries for that object update automatically. I'll also PM you this file. Thanks for any help!

 

Edited July 25 by Ian5100
Added information

[Pat Stanford]

Do you have viewports that show the data as well as the Design Layer? This could trick the report into listing the same object multiple times.

 

If so, edit the criteria for row 2 (right click on the row number and choose Edit Criteria) and specify the  layer(s) that you want to report on.

[Ian5100]

That seems to be the problem. With Design Layer Viewports checked, it finds 6 objects, unchecked it finds 2. Thanks for pointing that out, I never would have found it.

 

 

Although I'm now having a new issue where I can't actually edit criteria. Once a row has been converted to a database, none of the *... options under the Database dropdown are responsive. So this was done with a fresh worksheet. I'm content to create a new worksheet that's set up properly, but would love any suggestion as to why this may be.

[Pat Stanford]

The only place you can edit a database is in the Database Header row (ie 2, not 2.1, 2.2, etc.). If you can't see the header row, then check the Worksheet View menu and make sure the Database Headers is checked.

[Ian5100]

I also just discovered (for me, could be common knowledge for others) that you have to select the entire row, not just a cell within the row, in order to edit the database 🤦‍♂️. Thanks for your help Pat! This has been bothering me for a while.

[Pat Stanford]

Correct, Right Click in the database header Row Label. You don't have to select the row.

[Conrad Preen]

Sounds like you cracked it ! I'd agree that the way to access the database criteria is not immediately obvious. Trouble is if we put everything that anyone ever has trouble finding on the screen there'll be no room for the drawing. But we do have some useful tools like Search Vectorworks ( little magnifying glass top-right ). And the online help is very accurate.