Duplicates in the Status Report Dialog

The content and behavior of the Status Report Window on ArchiCAD 8 has changed compared to ArchiCAD 7 in the following ways:

Duplicate Library Parts and Library parts with duplicate file names are listed separately. Items listed under 'Duplicate Library Parts' are identical ones (library parts that have the same GUID) causing a conflict, while items listed under 'Duplicate Names' are Library parts having identical names, but are not conflicting.

If there are conflicting duplicates in the loaded Libraries of a project file, then the 'Status report' window will pop up after opening the file. Library parts with duplicate names will not trigger the 'Status Report' window upon opening the file.

See the example below:

• Armchair 01.gsm is missing:
  it is not found in the loaded libraries
• Duplicate Library Parts:
  Armchair 02.gsm was found twice in the loaded libraries: please remove one of the two to avoid conflicts in the project
• Duplicate Names:
  there are two different objects called Armchair 03.gsm in the loaded libraries, however there's no conflict between them - work with this project can be continued.
  However, to avoid confusion, we suggest not to use different library parts sharing the same name.

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