Hi Pierre

Did something change at some point in the way items (XML way, item + subs) are copied/pasted in IQ...?

 

When an item has multiple parents and is found in several places under a copied hierarchy, that item pasted only once (when the paste process pastes as "new" item, of course, NOT as a new link/parent link).

e.g.

#1 Original outline. 1 & 2 are the same items under A, B and D

 

#2 Copied and pasted outline (as new items)
 

 

Has it always been like that ? I thought I tested it a long time ago and if an item was to be found under several parents, it would then be reproduced several time in the paste process.  I might have dreamed/inferred that, and its very unfortunate... consequences for my work are pretty far reaching (like : a paragraph missing in a paper I submitted last year).

IMO it doesn't really make sense to paste as in the example #2 above when pasting as new items as there's absolutely no way to know what should be found under these incomplete hierarchies, unless ones feels like going through a potentially extremely long process of recreating all the hierarchies from the original model...

 

I understand the potential difficulty to recreate the logic of parent/children multiple linking in a newly pasted/created hierarchy, but even if the multiple links aren't preserved as links inside the copied hierarchy, the items should at least be reproduced, even as autonomous items with only a single link.

So pasting the first example would look like, with the various 1 & 2 having different item IDs

 

 

It seems much, much better to me. Yes, no more multiple links, BUT the hierarchy, structure, meaning... is preserved. And that way it's easy  to create templates and copy/paste them. Otherwise, it becomes quite harder and -- to me -- somewhat defeats some of the advantages of multiple parent linking.

 

Can this problem be confirmed?

If confirmed, can be "fixed" ? Or maybe at least add an option to reproduce all items with multiple "links"... multiple times (diff. IDitem)?

 

Thanks