reports generate invisible entries

[dansansome]

im fairly new at autoCAD electrical, and im using 2006. im gradually setting up all the standards that i wish to use, and when generating BOMs i require an item number column, which is simply numbered sequentially. i have got this column to display by going through the report setup process, but when it displays in the drawing, the column appears blank and i has to manually edit the columns (the numbers then disappear when i update the report). same thing happens for the MFG column, the column is there, but no info is shown, even when i have selected items from the default catalog inserted in the drawing.

am i being a complete noob and missing something obvious here?

Cheers

Dan

[dansansome]

ok, forget the mfg bit, i had multiple "mfg" tags hidden inside the block i was testing with, ACADE was seeing a conflict, hence the blank column. still havent got the item numbers to show though....

[dansansome]

doh, noob alert.

found the "item" box in the component insert dialogue (where you can perform catalogue lookup etc), which allows the item number to be defined.