Okay, I know this technically won't work in ACA, since the 'number'
field in ACA will not accept letter characters.
Dagnabbit. ~grumble~
Wanderer wrote:
> I'm using ACA 2008 with FMD 7.1
>
> I created all of my spaces (all in one go, so they shouldn't have
> duplicate 'number's, as I've experienced in the past and I know will
> cause problems). Then, I made sure all of the space 'Name's were unique
> (using our standard space tag of CC-##-###).
>
> Now I'm ready to use this existing space plan with FMD. I log the
> drawing, apply FMSpaces Property Set Definition (PSD) and sundry.
>
> Now, my problem comes with the Extended Data Tab in ACA.
>
> There are
> two fields, 'Name' and 'Number' that I'm concerned with. I'd
> like to copy the field 'name' into the field 'number' so that it's
> unique, and I can more easily identify the space once it's imported into
> FMD, without the meaningless 'number' field to throw me off and take up
> space.
>
> I'd like to know how to batch change that, if it's possible?
>
> I could go into FMD and copy over the column from the backend, but,
> while that seems to work for my database, it's going to break my
> conne
> ction with the original drawing, making future updates a nightmare
> and require a huge amount of rework.
>
> I'd love some advice/insight on how I should be going about this.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Melanie Perry
> ***not all who wander are lost***
> http://Tech-Tea.com
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>
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