Renamed and deleted folders in UDT definitions stay visible

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I have a project for testing things and I found out that renaming or deleting folders seems to still leave the folders visible for when you want to add a new data type instance to your tags.

So this is when you do New Tag => Data type instance
Then it shows all renamed folders without any contents.
Is there any way to fix it?

2

What version are you on? I couldn't do this on 8.1.22.

3

My apologies for the late response.
I'm running 8.1.22

I can reproduce it by doing the following steps:

  1. Make a new folder 'Testfolder123' in UDT Definitions
  2. Make a UDT in the folder 'Test'
  3. Rename the folder to 'Testfolder'

Screenshots of the results:

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Edit:
Deleting the folder afterwards also still makes it show 'TestFolder' and 'TestFolder123' on the new data type instance.

4

So the flaw is that you can make UDT instances in the section for UDT definitions? Outside of a UDT definition?

5

The flaw is that when renaming or deleting a folder containing an UDT in the UDT definitions, you will still see the folder (empty) while wanting to add a UDT instance in the tags.

6

Ok. I replicated this. Looks like a bug. Clicking on the tag browser's refresh button didn't help. Restarting the tag provider fixed it (but is disruptive in production).

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Yeah, I thought the issue was different based on your description. I just replicated it. I recommend you open up a support ticket with us to have an engineer take a deeper look to determine if we need to open up a bug ticket for it or not.