I happen to run into this while working in MS Word. In MS Word if you goto File>Info>Properties (drop down)>Show document panel you get a list of document properties similar to iProperties dialog in Inventor or drawing properties dialog in AutoCAD. The cool part is if you Insert>QuickParts(drop down)>Document Property and select a propertie it drops that field into the document. Now if you edit the text it is the same as editing the property. I want similar functionality in all my Autodesk Documents. That way if an end user edits the field text of a document it is the same as editing the property only they don't have to open the property dialog to edit the text.
See the screen shot from MS Word for reference.