Custom fields in group master disappearing upon saving

[wxaggie11]

I don't know if this is a bug or what this is, but I have custom text fields inside a grouped master that keep disappearing upon saving. What I mean by disappearing is that the value goes to zero and seems to not understand the custom formula I entered upon saving. I have a shape data cell (inside the whole grouped master) called Prop.Title that I want displayed in a text box, so I use Insert > Field... > Custom Formula and enter into the text box:

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=Sheet.1!Prop.Title
(of course this is only assuming the shape has ID 1, which I can never be sure. There must be a better way to do this but I will continue)

When the code is entered into the Custom Formula field the data shows up. When I save the document, the title inside the text field reverts to zero.

WHY? 

[wapperdude]

The behavior that you describe is unusual, not expected.  Visio should retain the shape data and will automatically update the shape ID as needed.  I could not replicate your situation, but am enclosing a Visio file to show what I tried.

The Visio file has two additional groupped shapes.  The 2nd one was just a copy of the 1st to show that Visio will update the sheetXX reference.  The 3rd was a result of copying the 1st shape and placing it on a stencil, and then dragging the shape from the stencil and placing it on the drawing.  Again, no unusual behavior.  This final version was saved, closed, and re-opened.  Still OK.  Visio then was shut down and restarted.  Still OK.

HTH
Wapperdude