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The "Selection List" grid currently has several limitations. Firstly, for the "Links" page, when you paste in some link IDs, the underlying code is not very sophisticated - it essentially just does a "text to columns" operation, splitting the input text by all 'periods'. So e.g. a link named "Pump.01.2" would end up with "Pump" as the US node ID, and "01" as the link suffix, and the "2" is just lost. So my request is that the underlying code is changed so that instead of looking for all 'periods', it just looks for the final/last 'period' in the input text string, and splits the text into columns based on this.
The next issue is with "Other items". Firstly, it seems very arbitrary which network object types get their own sheets, and which are lumped into the "other items" sheet. (e.g. why are "damage receptors" special, but "general points" are not?) I have a model containg a set of "general points" and a set of "polygons". Many of these just have numeric IDs. And there are a few instances where the IDs are shared between the "general points" and the "polygons" (e.g. I have both a "general point" object and a "polygon" object each named "1"). I tried to create a selection list for some "general points", but when I drag this onto the Geoplan, only a few of the general points are selected, and instead a bunch of polygons are selected (where IDs are shared). So clearly "polygons" come before "general points" in the hierarchy. So either the code needs to be altered to prevent objects which get lumped into the "other items" from sharing IDs in the first place, or the selection list grid needs to be altered to get around this issue - maybe in the "other items" sheet, there should be a second column with a drop-down for "object type"?
