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Running a role report for some members of Quest Toastmasters gives multiple instances of duplicated roles on the same days. I've attached two such reports.

Did you check if you have multiple agenda for those days?

I cannot read your files, please upload without spaces in the name.

Hi Brian,
Only one agenda each day, meetings held twice a month. Here's the same reports without spaces. DIdn't realize that was an issue.

This is for Quest 4643, where I am co-admin.

I've also added a screenshot of all of the agendas for this term, which report1 is based on.

That is because you don't have * around the role *General Evaluator* for all 3 occurrences in the agenda. so it shows as 3 roles

We have to put an asterisk around role descriptions? How odd that I've never done this, perhaps because it would look weird. This doesn't affect any other report or function, does it?

Please read all the documentation on 5he agenda.

I followed the example of using a * before and after a description on a past agenda and it indeed worked as you describe. Thank you.

I have an idea for improvement: The documentation on the Add/Edit Agenda Item where a role is being created should show the * instead of " as it does now (Enter the name of the role or agenda item. Some examples, "Toastmaster","Sgt. at Arms Opens Meeting","1 Minute to Complete Evaluation Forms" (no quotes).), wouldn't you agree?

The purpose of the asterisks is just to force the code to treat multiple incidences of a role collectively rather than individually. However, the asterisks are not needed if you only have one occurrence of a role.

Many simple agendas do not list multiple occurrences of roles, so the asterisks are not needed then.

It is not a "black and white" use case, so there is not a "black and white" way of documenting it. It really should be considered a more advanced use case for more advanced agendas.