# Manage Sheets

**Manage Sheets** command creates new Sheets according to a user-defined template Sheet. Before starting to work with the Manage Sheets tool, at least one Sheet for a template has to be in the project.

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### Manage Sheets

<table data-header-hidden><thead><tr><th width="322"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Elements of the Sheets category are grouped together in a tree. You can select parameter to group by using <strong>Configure Grouping</strong></td><td>The list of all existing Sheets with their parameters. Using <strong>Select Parameters,</strong> users can choose the parameters to be used in this table. These parameters can later be used to configure grouping.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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### Select Parameters

Select which parameters will appear in the Sheets table.

**Available Items** – all possible Sheets category parameters:

**Common parameters** checkbox – shows **only** common parameters of the Sheets category.

**Selected Items** – parameter that will appear in the Sheets table. The order of parameters can be adjusted using the "Move Up" and "Move Down" buttons.

### Configure Grouping

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The Sheets can be grouped together in a tree.

For example, If **Sheet Number**, **Sheet Name** and **Scale** are selected in the **Configure Grouping** window, then the elements can be expanded, filtered, and quantified by these parameters.

The list of parameters comes from the **Select Parameters**.

### Create New Sheets

To create new Sheets, select a template from the list and hit **Create New Sheets**. A template is an existing Sheet with views placed on it.

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Choose views that you want to place on Sheets:

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Choose view settings to copy from the template Sheet's views:

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In the next window, you need to map the selected views to the template Sheet's views.

In this table, every row represents a newly-created Sheet.

**Group Views by type** checkbox will organize views according to their types in respective columns. When finished, hit **OK**.

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New Sheets are created. You can click **OK** to finish this command or you can change some parameter values (such as **Sheet Name**, **Sheet Number**) of the new Sheets first.

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### Other commands

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In the **Manage Sheets** window, you can also:

* **Duplicate Sheet** – this command duplicates selected Sheets which all their views.
* **Rename Sheet as View Name** – changes the names of selected Sheets to the names of the main views that are in these Sheets.


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