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Hi there,
I am new to QET, and really liking it in comparison to other electrical drawing packages. However I am struggling a bit with the auto-numbering, and it took me a bit before I realised that it seems that the categories with prefixes have to be sub-categories. Ie you don't seem to be able to assign prefixes to top-level categories / folders. This seems strange, but easy enough to work around.

My example that didn't work (where "circuit_breakers" and "fuses" are folders at root level of elements folder):

<labels>
  <category name="circuit_breakers">
    <prefix>Q</prefix>
  </category>
  <category name="fuses">
    <prefix>F</prefix>
  </category>
  <category name="miscellaneous"></category>
</labels>

and my example that did work (where "circuit_breakers" and "fuses" are sub-folders in a folder "circuit_protection"):

<labels>
  <category name="circuit_protection">
      <category name="circuit_breakers">
        <prefix>Q</prefix>
      </category>
      <category name="fuses">
        <prefix>F</prefix>
      </category>
  </category>
</labels>

What I am now struggling to understand is whether there is a way to keep the sequential numbering for different circuit element types separate (e.g. all fuses as F1, F2, F3, all breakers as Q1, Q2, Q3, rather than ending up with F1, Q2, F3, Q4 etc.). I realise you can create different numbering schemes for each type of circuit element, but this requires you to remember to change the numbering scheme each time you add an element to the folio - which I'm not very good at!

Thanks for any suggestions.