Formula not finding items

[patjdixon]

I have items imported from a CSV, and they show up in Workbench and I can create signals from Value Search.  However, if I try to use any of the item in a formula it says The item with ID 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000276 could not be found

Edited November 27, 2022 by patjdixon

[James DeMarco]

Was this a duplicated analysis?  If so, I suspect that the IDs you're seeing are associated to items that couldn't be cloned successfully.  If this is the case, you should find a journal in the (new) first worksheet of the cloned analysis, which will list items that couldn't be cloned successfully for some reason.  Often this has to do with permissions.  These items are created in the cloned analysis, but they're assigned placeholder IDs that are serial numbers preceded by an appropriate number of 0s to make a GUID.  If that's what happened here, examining the journal on the first worksheet of the analysis should provide clues as to what needs to be fixed before a subsequent attempt at duplication.

[patjdixon]

Thanks James, that is the answer.  I duplicated the workbook and got the Error Report.  I assume this always happens when you have a CSV import?

[James DeMarco]

Glad to help, Pat.  This is expected behavior for Datafiles that are locally scoped.  If you're ok with making the Datafile and associated Signals globally scoped, you can open the Item Properties for the Datafile and set the scope to global; note that setting the scope to global cannot be undone.  Once the Datafile is global, workbook duplication should work as expected.