What causes the "Replace With Other" lost reference with the "Other" piece, and how to avoid it?

Module Design
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It is about the fifth time that i need to pass 40+ pieces 'cause the Replace With Other trait looses the reference of what piece is the “Other” one.
It’s a boring to death process, and I’d like to understand what causes this loss of reference (given that i don’t have renamed any of them) and, if not obvious once i know that, how to avoid it while in the process of heavily updating/improving the module.

Can someone help me?

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If you are doing any reorganizing and/or reordering of items in a piece palette, that will change the piece slots stored in the buildfile for every affected piece. In my experience that’s a reliable way to break a Replace With Other trait.

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Uh … so the reference is not to a piece unique ID, but is a sort of path or, even worse, an index inside a “place” (a Folder, a Palette, or whatever)?

If this is true, it is a very sad new :frowning:

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Unfortunately, I can confirm that it’s exactly as Joel says.
I’ve run into this problem in the past, precisely after reorganizing the piece palette.

5

Thanks to you both.
I’ve finally choosen to get rid of that trait in the whole module. It costed me two full days but now i don’t need that damn trait anymore :slight_smile: