Mapping Rules Strategies

Save time when mapping duplicate properties using this indirect, but more efficient, workflow.

In the screenshot below, we have already scanned the Line Styles tab for duplicates. Guardian reported there are 3 styles that are the same.

In this example, ACME_05 represents our company standard naming convention and the one we ultimately want to remain in our template.

After scanning duplicates, the next step is to scan the usage of these three line styles.

• OLD_5 is being used a disproportionate number of times compared to the other two.
• A traditional and intuitive workflow would be to map OLD_5 and 5 to the desired outcome of ACME_05
• However, It's not hard to imagine that converting 736 instances will take a considerable amount of time compared to the alternative.

Instead of mapping OLD_5 and 5 into ACME_5, we will reverse the operation by mapping everything into OLD_5 to minimize processing time and then simply rename it.

After mapping 5 and ACME_5 into OLD_5, we have a combined usage of 803. Now all we need to do is rename OLD_5 to ACME_5 and we saved ourselves a considerable amount of time.