Default settings for "prompted entry" Properties

[UKJT]

Hi Chaps
I'm trying to set up some new title blocks, I have some "prompted entry" Properties that I want to incorporate, I've got them in the title blocks OK but I can't seem to get em to return a default value, the prompts are all coming in blank when the dialog box comes up. I have set the defaults to what I need on the original ANSI template with the new title block, but when I create a new drawing using that template, the title block comes in without any values set. Is there a way of setting them to return a default value initially that you would change if required, I'm sure I'm missing something very basic!!
Also, in the 'edit property' fields dialog box, there does not seem to be a way of inserting symbols into the value field, have I not turned on the right variable, or missed have I something else??
Any ideas / suggestions would be gratefully received.
TIA

[mflayler2]

You are not missing anything, this is not done with Prompted Entries. You could add it as an AUGI wish if you like.
To solve your issue though, do you routinely have this as a default in what percentage of your drawings?
If it is a high value just add a Custom iProperty to the Drawing and Map it to that instead of a Prompted Entry. Once done in your titleblock you can just change it in the iProperties when it is not the default.

[bghagerii]

My biggest pain is having to always switch to Prompted.  Is there a way to change the default to prompted?

[swhite]

I would suggest if you want default values then set up custom fields in the iproperties, instead of prompted enteries. You can then set a default value and if you need to change it on a per drawing basis you just go to the iproperties > custom tab, select the one you want, change the entery and click modify. or they can be left blank and filled in if needed. Any changes to one custom field will not affect any other drawing.

[bghagerii]

That one I know.  I can minipulate it all day long.  This is the one I am interested in trying to reset which shows as default (All or Prompted - sometime other fields).

[mrattray]

This is what I do, but I go a step further and add the properties to an iLogic form for easier access. (I see you're on 2011, so that's not an option for you.)

[bghagerii]

Actually, we are using 2012.  I've used iLogic, but Inventor's listing capabilities over re-building our products for iLogic use.

[mrattray]

My reply was to Steven. He has 2011 in his signature.
I don't know any way to do what you are asking.

[bghagerii]

Okay. There may be no way of setting it for default except maybe
through the computers registry, but that can have bad results.



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[swhite]

I used 2012 in my previous job, and I have yet to find a way to set a default for a prompted entry. You can have an ilogic form in 2012 or later pop up and ask for entries, with a given default, but otherwise I don't think there is a specific way just with propmpted entries, unless one of the later versions after 2012 added this capability.