# Duplicate View Issues

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/duplicate-view-issues/33073>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** clockwork\
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/duplicate-view-issues/33073 "2019-03-07T03:27:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![David3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@David3](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/David3)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/duplicate-view-issues/33073/1 "2019-03-07T03:27:15Z")

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Can anyone help me understand why this graph locks up? If I use an integer and plug that number into the number of duplicates it works. When I use the number that is pulled from the unique item count, it locks up.  
[DuplicateViews.dyn](https://forum.dynamobim.com/uploads/short-url/7dnKbKamqdLfqL955Z3zhXt95wT.dyn) (16.4 KB)

 ![DuplicateViews](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/a/b/abf8e40389d2a3dc9a9587072d3fc8aa880e7f8f.png)

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**Author:** ![David3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@David3](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/David3)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/duplicate-view-issues/33073/2 "2019-03-07T03:34:27Z")

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To clarify what I was saying before, the below graph works. The graph above where I plug in the 3 from the unique items node does not.

 ![DuplicateViews2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/e/9/e93a668a3abe5ec93ddcce0c80fbffae4966d2e2.png)

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**Author:** ![jacob.small](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/jacob.small/32/161030_2.png) [@jacob.small](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jacob.small)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/duplicate-view-issues/33073/3 "2019-03-07T19:53:18Z")

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Could be related to element binding. Rebuild the graph on manual execution and see if that fixes it.

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**Author:** ![David3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@David3](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/David3)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/duplicate-view-issues/33073/4 "2019-03-07T21:00:19Z")

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Jacob-Thank you! That seemed to do the trick. I don’t understand why exactly. Is there a better explanation that you could point me to to better understand?

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**Author:** ![jacob.small](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/jacob.small/32/161030_2.png) [@jacob.small](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jacob.small)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/duplicate-view-issues/33073/5 "2019-03-07T23:47:34Z")

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Sure thing! See this thread I posted last month:

> [@Element Binding in Revit](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/element-binding-in-revit/31612):
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> Element binding is the name given to the process which Dynamo manage to ‘track’ the items created in non-Dynamo files. In this case, I’m going to focus entirely on element binding as it refers to Dynamo for Revit, but the mechanism exists to allow for this behavior in other applications (advanced steel, fusion, alias, etc.) as well. In the context of Revit, ‘elements’ refers to anything with an Element ID in the Revit database. When utilized correctly, element binding will expand how you leverag…