In our setup I have written an alternative copy script, which copies views hierarchically into a release library and also does the referencing correctly. This works fine, If I handle views like symbol, schematic,layout,abstract ... But it does not work for veriloga views(they are different in nature) during normal copying i use dbOpenCellViewByType v dbID v dbCopyCellViewByType these do not work for verilog a views because dbOpenCellViewByType cannot generate a dbID for them. Is there also a way to get a dbID for a veriloga view(its actually a file containing a veriloga behavioural description) rds