Revision ID "00" showing "01" on Layouts & Publisher instead

[Francois Swanepoel]

Hi Graphisoft team

I have an issue in Archicad 29.1.0 (4006) on Windows 11 25H2 in the Book Settings.
On a NEW project, when I do the FIRST Transmittal Set, the Revision ID is set to start at "00" and the ID of Transmittal Set is also set to "00", but the Revision ID autotext on the Layouts & Layouts Names in the Publisher are showing revision "01".

I noted that this particular issue in Archicad 29 that I experience, was also reported for Archicad 28 in this post "REVISION ID-New Drawings" by @JCCARLOS0791 that also included other issues with Revsion IDs.

This is quite frustrating & forces us to issue Revision "00" with manual text on our Layout Masters on projects, then change the revision on our masters to autotext "Revision ID" and only do Transmittals from revision "01". This causes a contractual issue in our audit trails that Revision "00" is not showing in our Layout History Indexes. Having to manually fix this on any size projects to meet contract standard requirements is no joke.

Is this a known bug or am I missing something?

Operating system used: Windows 25H2

[runxel]

I think there are some misunderstandings here.

Maybe also from my side, so please bear with me.

So first of all, the tabs have nothing to do with each other.

The "IDs of items in this book" control the Layout IDs. That's it.

Transmittal history is something else.

Second of all: Of course it's possible to have the same ID (layout revision) in different transmittals....

Third of all: The ID of the transmittal is controlled implicitly: If you start with the first one being a "A", the next one will be automatically "B". If its a number, it will increment. I use exclusively alphabetical IDs for my layout revisions, and numbers for the transmittals, so that these never will be confused.

The transmittal ID is not really used anywhere, at least by me. It's just a counter, but I ignore it. Maybe there is a use case I do not see, but only the revision IDs of the layouts themself are of importance.

[Francois Swanepoel]

Thanks for chiming in @runxel 

You are so right... looking to solve the issue to get the Revision IDs to start from "00", I mixed the 2 and got it wrong on the 1st panel ("IDs of items in this Book" controls the Layout IDs).

Please tell me how exactly did you get the Layout Revision IDs in this screenshot to all show "00"?

In my post & comment outlines my new project file with clean / new Transmittals keep starting Revision IDs at "01" and then increments normally from there.

I hope it's without needing activating the Override Revision Numbers tick box.

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@runxel wrote:

Second of all: Of course it's possible to have the same ID (layout revision) in different transmittals....

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In our case, the standard of our client Architect that we're helping, needs to use numeric IDs for Transmittal & Layout Revisions all starting from "00" as prescribed by their client's requirements. We have no issue with how Transmittal & Layout Revisions automatically increment, as long as we can start from "00".

[runxel]

You're welcome.

Like I said, there is no way to explicitely make a rule. Instead you have to make the first index manually. There is no other way. So you must set it.

You have to go to the layout (or do it through the schedule) and edit it the ID there:

That's all there is to it.

[Francois Swanepoel]

Ok @runxel that is exactly what I did as the image in my original post shows.

To get the Layouts in that 1st Transmittal set, I had to activating the "Override Revision Numbers" tick box which creates a mess in further Transmittals.

But I will try this again with a brand new, clean file like before. Let's see...

[runxel]

Maybe I explained myself not well enough, but I did not use the "Override" button. Instead I make a new transmittal. The new, open transmittal will be filled with all layouts at first. Now, in the German version the default is that everyone starts on index "A". Let's presume that I want a numerical index instead.

I have to go to the layout, open its settings. Then I can change it to lets say "00" manually. Next time there is a change it will now automatically increment to "01".

Of course, if there is a change and you still want the same index?.... That's very obviously not possible. It would be deceitful anyway.