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Too many recursive macro substitutions

  • August 17, 2020
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keithhastings
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I've got a big workspace (running on desktop 2019.1.1.0) that uses a few embedded custom transformers to perform some fairly complex calcs. I actually call one custom transformer a lot of times. This worked OK when I had about 75 of the transformers in the workspace, but now that I have about 90 it is returning the error "Too many recursive macro substitutions..."

I think there is probably a way I can use looping to physically reduce the number of transformers in the workspace, but this will be a very big effort and I'm not sure there is any guarantee it will actually fix the problem.

Has anyone seen this before and know what the issue is?

I have found a couple of unanswered questions about this when searching in the previous questions.

 

thanks

Keith

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david_r
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  • August 17, 2020

Have you tried converting the custom transformer from embedded to linked?

Also, do you do anything with e.g. Python inside the custom transformer?

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