Fields Not Updating in Xref

[Anonymous]

I've seen several similar posts but nothing quite like the issue I am having. I have a simple titleblock with some drawing properties in it that are updated per sheet. The xref comes in and reads drawing properties - but not consistently. Sometimes it will read the properties sometimes not. Sometimes when you regenall it updates sometimes not. Even reloading the xref will not update it - unless you edit something in the xref.  I am OK with doing a simple REA but not closing and reopening every sheet file. The only fully consistent method I have found is to close the drawing and reopen it. Then the fields update.

I have checked FIELDEVAL (31) and DEMANDLOAD (3) and nothing seems to consistently fix it. 

Is there another setting for xref, field updating, regen or something I am missing that 'fixes' this issue? I have attached a sample. This file was not updating then after about the third try "a while" later it suddenly updated just fine with REA. Now its stopped again.

[pendean]

"sometimes" type problems usually means there is something missing at that moment.

Q: your ZIP file only contains one DWG file with a block in it (that's not an XREF), is that your problem, you have some xrefs and some that are no longer Xrefs?

[Anonymous]

Sorry. I used the default settings on ETransmit and it must have inserted the Xref (the titleblock) as a block. It was referenced into the drawing example. 

REA doesn't always show me updated fields. If I force an update with UPDATEFIELD, select the XREF, update, then REA again - I get the updates. Other times, in the same drawing a simple REA works.

I'm trying to find why I have to force the update sometimes and sometimes I don't. There doesn't seem to be a pattern to when I have to force it even in the same drawing. There must be some drawing or system variable that is/isn't getting tripped to control the update.

[leothebuilder]

check out the FIELDEVAL variable, it has several settings that may work for you.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I had looked at that one and DEMANDLOAD (3). FIELDEVAL is set to 31 would should trigger a refresh on everything possible but its not catching it.

[leothebuilder]

If the actual field is in an xref drawing, this will not automatically update in the host file until you reload the xref.