Duplicating items are doubling up.

[OhmsG]

I'm attempting to duplicate a group and put in a specific layer.  I'm encountering some errors so I'll explain.

plcIx is always a current number like 2, 3, 4 etc.

and itemLayer is the previous number so 2 - 1, etc.

I call it like this:

setDuplicateTemplate(xi, placementClick, (placementClick -1));

function setDuplicateTemplate(idx, plcIx, itemLayer) {
// here I select the previous layer where the items are.  
  var itemTemplateLayer = aDoc.layers.getByName("Placement" + itemLayer);
  itemTemplateLayer.hasSelectedArtwork = true;
  // I can visually see and am sure there are about 15 items but when I do the below alert it says length is 1;
  alert(itemTemplateLayer.pathItems.length);
// I make the variable for the selected items... which is 15
  var selected = aDoc.selection;
//   I create the layer I want to place the items into 
  var mainTemplateLayer = aDoc.layers.getByName("Placement" + plcIx);
//   I then loop through the selection and duplicate to the layer
  for (var i = 0; i < selected.length; i++) {
    selected[i].duplicate(mainTemplateLayer, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND);
  }
// I attempt to deselect the items so there will not be selected for the next one
  aDoc.selection = [];
  selected = []; 

  // anyway to position the items???
}

After I run the above code each time I check the layer has multiple copies of the item.   So in example in Placement 5, 6, 7 it's always duplicating.  The duplicate is supposed to put the items in the new mainTemplateLayer but that's not happening.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[femkeblanco]

This block works as expected for me.  Can you provide further details on how setDuplicateTemplate() is called?

[OhmsG]

I call it like so:

                  if ( z <= 1 || placementCount == 1 ) {
                      setIndividualTemplate(xi, placementClick);
                  } else {
                      setDuplicateTemplate(xi, placementClick, (placementClick -1));
                  }

the for loop is 

for ( z = 1; z <= trackOrderQty; z++ )

Where trackOrderQty is all the orders. 

[OhmsG]

I get the feeling that my code runs before things are executed it but that's impossible with ai right? Isn't it synchronously?

[femkeblanco]

Are you able to provide (1) self-contained executable code and (2) a screenshot of a test document where the the problem has occurred?