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[janrif]

Originally posted by dasymington
Is there any way to backup and restore column layouts? I use these extensively for custom templates that are based on system templates.

Let me tell you something. Despite Kinook's reply, I reset once & it was a giant PITA if you have customized a lot of views, columns, etc, etc, etc. Personally, I would try everything else 14x before I tried to reset But each to their own. Just my .02 which may worth a lot less on this forum.

[dasymington]

Thanks, janrif. Yes, I'm very reluctant to reset. I think I'll just live with the Imported Items duplicated under a random text item, even although it looks stupid.

I can't understand why, as Imported Items managed to get linked somewhere else, I can't just delete the link.

[janrif]

Originally posted by dasymington
Thanks, janrif. Yes, I'm very reluctant to reset. I think I'll just live with the Imported Items duplicated under a random text item, even although it looks stupid.

I can't understand why, as Imported Items managed to get linked somewhere else, I can't just delete the link.

I don't know if you noticed my edited post. After an URp close / reopen, I was able to drag / drop Import to 'All Data'. Then I discovered I had two 'Imported' branches which may have been confused URp so I deleted the one that I could. Now everything is in the right place but, like you, I still don't know how it got there.

Jon's post refers to certain situations in which this mysterious move could occur & thiose situations matched mine. Kinook posted it was fixed in the current version. I hope this is true but I'm not convinced yet altho I do think he/they solved a lot of the buglets that were plaguing URp recently.

[kevina]

If the column layouts are defined on your derived templates, then they will not be affected - only the column layouts of the actual "system" templates (Text, Document, Search [template], will be affected.

If you have customized the "system" template column layouts, I would recommend that you copy your .urd file, do a Full Repair on the original, and then manually update the few "system" template column layouts to match the copy... I would suspect that this will be unnecessary since you have likely done your customizations to non-system templates/items, but if it does, you can simply revert to the copy.