How can I uniquely identify copied parts when performing a "copy workspace" through the API?

ethan_keller924

Say I have a PS in my original document named "A". Now I want to copy my workspace and point to PS "A" within the new document. Is my only option to sort through the names and find the matching name? How can I positively know that new PS "A" is referring to the same PS as old PS "A"... essentially I want a map that relates all the old document PS element ids to the new PS element ids. Is there a simple way to generate this without using the user-settable names? (That would be a bad choice because the element name namespace allows duplicate names.)

raj_Onshape

Currently copy workspace doesn't return the mapped entities.  Each part studio/assembly name is faithfully copied to the target document. So are each part names within a part studio.  So you can use the tab name to map to the correct tab and within a tab use part name to map the part. All this depends having unique tab names within a document and unique parts within a tab.

Alternatively you can use additional metadata like description or title set globally unique on all tabs/parts  to disambiguate.

ethan_keller924

Sorry, I meant the element name namespaces can have duplicates. The eid doesn't allow for duplicates. 

ethan_keller924

Any workaround to get this? 

raj_Onshape

Currently copy workspace doesn't return the mapped entities.  Each part studio/assembly name is faithfully copied to the target document. So are each part names within a part studio.  So you can use the tab name to map to the correct tab and within a tab use part name to map the part. All this depends having unique tab names within a document and unique parts within a tab.

Alternatively you can use additional metadata like description or title set globally unique on all tabs/parts  to disambiguate.