diesel expression in field titleblock

[KlaasAV]

Hi,

In a tileblock field we want to use a diesel expression to show the first capital of the drawing state(istorical).

This is a part of a fully automated ID representation of a drawing.
What it looks like see attachement.

What i use for these fields in the block attribute you see here:

%<\AcVar CustomDP.Project number \f "%tc3">%-%<\AcVar CustomDP.Document type \f "%tc3">%-%<\AcDiesel $(substr,%<\AcVar CustomDP.Status>%,1,1)>%%<\AcVar CustomDP.Revision \f "%tc3">%-%<\AcVar CustomDP.Discipline \f "%tc3">%-%<\AcVar CustomDP.Project phase \f "%tc3">%-%<\AcSm Sheet.Number \f "%tc3">%

In this example (see attachement) Status is Work in Progress so it should show only doubleU (W) and it does - see the lower red circle.

This is the part:  %<\AcDiesel $(substr,%<\AcVar CustomDP.Status>%,1,1)>%

But the problems is when status changes the diesel expression is not evaluted anymore, so  "project number/ drawingnumber"in titleblock is still showing "W", In fact when i look in the field i see the text "Work in Progress"as text. So only the first time a drawing is checked in into the Vault the diesel expression is evaluated and replacing itself to text.

Ofcourse i would not, and the diesel expression stays and evaluated every Regen or whatever is responsable for evaluating this.

I am native dutch, so i hope my english is clear enough.

Someone any idea?

Klaas

[wayne.brill]

Hi Klaas,

This seems like an issue in AutoCAD. If it is please post the question in the AutoCAD customization forum.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-customization/ct-p/AutoCADTopic1

If it is a Vault API issue please provide more details.

Thanks,

Wayne