Duplicate Items

Structure allows you to have multiple instances of the same item in a single structure, so you can quickly visualize when a single issue impacts several others, or a single bug affects multiple issues.

Structure also makes it easy to identify and manage duplicates within your structure.

Finding Duplicates

If any items appear more than once in a structure, a duplicates counter will appear in the status bar.

The duplicates counter works for the visible part of a structure only. If you apply a Quick Filter that hides all but one of a duplicated item, that item will no longer be counted.

Clicking the duplicates counter will open the Duplicates panel, which allows you to highlight, filter, or quickly navigate between duplicate items.

Duplicate Counts

• The duplicates counter shows the number of items that have duplicates.

• The Duplicates panel shows the number of rows those items produce.

Mark Duplicate Rows

To highlight duplicate items, select the 'Mark duplicate rows' option. This places a duplicate icon (with ‘x2’ written on it) to the right of each duplicate row. If you hover over that icon, you'll see how many instances of this item are shown in the structure.

Once you highlight duplicate items, the highlighting stays even if you close the Duplicates Panel. To remove the highlighting, open the panel and clear the 'Mark duplicate rows' checkbox.

Navigating Between Duplicates

Click the “Up” or “Down” arrow button in the Duplicates panel to move the focus to the next/previous duplicate row.

Filtering by Duplicates

Clicking the Filter button hides everything in the structure except duplicate items and their parents.

When the Duplicates panel is closed, the Duplicates filter is disabled automatically.