If you copy an existing box in an External list, and it won't change the field content, it will not change after save, you have to create a new text box, modify the field content, and save:
Hi,
This may be obvious but it is always worth checking 
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You are working under the User folder I presume. The Advance folder is locked and users cannot make changes to anything in those folders.
Aleck Giles, Structures Consultant, Graitec
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@acbsdesign how do you apply borders to the text box. I so embarrassed, I have been working for 45 min trying to change this header from inches to decimal feet, then I came across this thread. Is AS by design to be so complicated , screaming difficult to do the seemingly most simple things..???? To this ignorant, uneducated redneck, it boggles the mind why you wouldn't be able to simply change the txt in a header and move on in 30 seconds....
Hi, It is the way Advance Steel External lists are done.
Right click on the box, "format border".
If you try to change the text within existing box it will revert to its original text, it does not accept changes. You need to create a new box, and modify "field content" with right click.
@acbsdesign wrote:
Hi, It is the way Advance Steel External lists are done.
Right click on the box, "format border".
If you try to change the text within existing box it will revert to its original text, it does not accept changes. You need to create a new box, and modify "field content" with right click.
Just to be more precise, I would like to share what I found out about the issue of not being able to update the TextBox field contents when you want to customize your headers or footers or whatever else...
If you take a carefull look to the right pane ...
Now...go to Management Tools, Table Editor and open the database stored at...
\ProgramData\Autodesk\Advance Steel 2019\INT\Steel\Data called..."AstCrtlDb"
Open up the subtable "ErrorMessages" (I wonder why Advance Steel developers had used this table to save this type of information...)...it will show...
So...%%Text(BOM, 1) is "reading" the BOM prompt with ErrorNumber 1 that corresponds to the ErrorText "Mark"...so...one way to update this label on ALL the BOM templates...and I mean ALL of them is to simply change here this label...this will affect all future BOM external lists where this text Mark is shown....if you look down this table you see some oher familiar BOM texts...
This is not however what is normally our intention...when all we want is simply to get an user list for example in our native language or instead of "Mark" just say "Piece Mark" or whatever else...
The way to do it, without needing to erase and create new TextBoxes is simply deleting the Tag content on the right pane and then change the FieldContent to what you want to use...and save it...if you keep the Tag content as it was...then next time you open it, the system looks on the database again and it writes what is there recorded...if the Tag is empty than there is nothing to look over...and the field content is kept! This way you keep the original texts as you may need to use them in the future and customize your own BOM in an easier way...
Please note that when you create a new textbox the Tag field is empty...and this is the reason why it works also...but in a more "difficult" way as you need to adjust the textbox size and format to keep the original look.
Hope this helps...
But developers...calling this Prompts....ErrorTexts is somehow a little odd!!
you can just remove the tag entry , then set the field content to the token required , or just plain text field required, using that option.
the cells can be set to have just text, tokens or formulae as required.
if you create a page header section in one template, you can select it and copy to another, as with the other elements, but you should watch which template you start from, as each type has some element in the xml code to control how it functions , this is why there are Assembly type lists, plain materials lists, etc.
Cheers
JB
John Bennett
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