Finding duplicate objects and the original object

To get the duplicates of an object, you can use either the GetAllDuplicates method or the GetDuplicates method. These methods follow the links associated with the Entity object and return a list of the duplicates associated with it. The GetAllDuplicates method returns not only the duplicates of the object, but also any duplicates of duplicates, and so on. The GetDuplicates method returns only the immediate duplicates of the Entity object.

To discover whether the current Entity object is the parent of the duplicates, call the IsOriginal method. (You can also call the GetOriginalID method to return the object's visible ID instead of the object itself.)

To find out which Entity object is the parent of a group of duplicates, call the IsOriginal method of each object until one of them returns True.