Default green symbol for objects in explorer view

Hi Silviya -

Even though you have created an object occurrence with the "Import data in Excel format" report, it does not automatically set the default symbols for the objects. Once you manually create an occurrence for each of these objects, it should reset the default symbol to whatever symbol you use for the new occurrence. My recommendation is the following:

1. Create a temporary model which allows all of your object types that you have imported (the FAD is a good candidate for this, but you will need to check what's best with your current filter)

2. In the Explorer window, select all of the objects have the green symbol (ie. they do not have a default symbol set)

3. Paste all of the objects into the FAD

4. Save the model

5. Reload your Explorer window and you should now see that the objects have properly set default symbol

6. Delete the temporary FAD model you created

In all, this should only take you a few minutes and is much quicker than going into the properties of each object and manually setting the default symbol.

Hi Ellen,

thanks for the tip! (saves time indeed in case you are not using several symbols for one object type).

One thing to add - if we also place the objects with their symbols in the sheet for object attributes maintenance in the excel for import (even if no attribute is populated), the objects get the desired symbol, so that's another way to handle I guess.

It is also a good practice to use an attribute to indicate the object type if you are using multiple symbols for the same object. This makes finding them all easier and it is easier to do reporting based on object types later on.