DATE CELL IN TABLE

[Anonymous]

I want to know how to link a cell from the autocad table to another cell in the autocad table because when I put a date (xx / xx / xxxx) the append appears in decimal format although I select the date format in destination cell. Sorry for my English :(.

Thanks

[pendean]

FIELD command: explore it in HELP.

[TheCADnoob]

I believe the problem is when you use the "cell" formula (i.e. =C2) it evaluates the date. so a date like 5/9/2017 is seen as a division problem and gets evaluated down to .0000275. 

The field expression "%<\AcExpr (C2)>%" looks like it may process the expression before it makes it to its new cell.

[Anonymous]

I appreciate your response. I do not know if I will know how to use what you tell me. When you say the field expression you mean to insert "% <\ AcExpr (C2)>%" as a diesel expression ?. Maybe I'm telling you something that is not possible. My knowledge is not so broad or I do not quite understand what you want to tell me. I'll try and tell you something.
Thank you very much.

[john.vellek]

Hi @Anonymous,

Can you explain how you intend to use the linked date? I can enter a date as text and it formats correctly. I can also use a field to enter a date. It is only when this seems to break down.

I am thinking you could place the date outside the table and have fields link to that object.

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[Anonymous]

Hello, I create two tables (Table 1 and Table 2). Then in a table1 cell (for example) I write a date with data format (date). So all right (I think) And then in table2 I select a cell and the table order appears and I select format data --- date and then insert formula ---- cell and I select the cell where I have the date (= A2) for example . What autocad inserts is a decimal number. Autocad must recognize the date as a split and then do the operation. I want to do this because I do drawings with many layouts and in each layout there is a drawing with a box and its revisions and there is also a general layout with its box in which a list of all the drawings with their different revisions appears. So in this general plan is repeated all the revisions of each layout of each layout. And for me not to forget to update this general plan I wanted to link each revision table of each layout with this general revision table. Maybe there's another way to make it easier but that's what I thought.

Thanks for taking the time to solve my problem.

[TheCADnoob]

This is looking more and more like a bug in the program. 

I would assume that linking a table cell would not evaluate the contents of that cell. I'm also having problems with it linking to a cell that contains text. This is likely because its trying to mathematically evaluate a text string. I would report this as a bug. 

As a work around you can explode that tables and just use the fields as you would normally do and point them to tother fields

you could also put your date data into the drawing comments section and just point the table filed to that data

or you could put a text object in the drawing with the date and have the talbles field point to the object property for that text object. 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your advice. I will try to do it as you say.

[john.vellek]

HI @Anonymous,

As I and @TheCADnoob suggested, did putting the original date outside of the table and linking to it work for your process?

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