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Sorry, this is going to be a very basic question!...

I've almost finished pre-programming my next show. Was in the theatre yesterday and updated some position palettes, but when I ran the cues later that contained the updated palettes the positions were still the wrong (the pre-programmed ones).

I'm concerned I've done something wrong which is going to give me a lot of extra work! This is what I've done when programming...

- select fixtures
- set position, save palette
- save cue using palette
- later, update position palette and merge changes

What have I missed?

Sounds correct to me. To confirm, you merged the new positions into the palette itself?

All I can think is the cue contains hard values and not palettes, perhaps if values were nudged before recorded. View the cue and toggle palettes in the context menu. Where attributes have hard values it will just show the value. Where they have palettes it will show the palette with the associated value in brackets.

Thanks Nic, I'll go through a bit later and check that the palette references have saved with the cues.

Yes I did merge the new positions into the existing palettes...or replaced them if they were normal palettes.

Can I ask...there isn't a setting to tell the desk to link cues to palettes as we're talking about is there? I can't see why there would be an option to switch the behaviour off...just wanted to check!

No. If you put a palette in the programmer and record a cue then the cue will always reference the palette unless you merge directly into the cue with hard values on the same controls or delete the palette (in which case the values become hard in the cue). AFAIK it 'should' still reference with replace but it's conceivable that this is where it might have gone wrong if you replaced rather than merge.