Sheet List Table Date Format & Custom Fields

[jrusinov]

Hello All,

Looking for some help with our Sheet Set indexing!

We have been looking at adding an index page to our sheet set templates (we just copy a template Sheet Set between all of our unit folders). In any case, every time we copy a sheet set, we are looking to have a premade index page that automatically updates with the desired properties. 

This works great for fields such as "Sheet Number" and "Sheet Title", but for a field like "Last Revised" (which is a renamed version of "Drawing Save Date") you can see it pulls the date as full text. We would like this date to read as...

"2023/11/22 11:43:26 AM". I have tried adding a custom "Date" table cell style but because this data is pulled in as text it ignores the date formatting rules in the cell. Is there a way to pull this data in this format without having to enter it into every drawing or manually into the table?

Second part of this question is about adding a plot stamp to this table.

Mainly what we are looking to create is a record of what state each drawing in this packet is currently in. To do this we need to add a column that identifies the current state of each drawing (aka. what drawing stamp is on it [for example: "ISSUED FOR REVIEW" or "RELEASED FOR CONSTRUCTION", etc.]). If we have a custom "Plot Stamp" using the Sheet set manager is there a way to pull that information into this table automatically?

Screenshots of referenced table and menu below:

[blkcar]

Sheet set seems great at first glance but reality sets in when you try to anything bar the absolute basics with it.

Have a look at using a drawing register & the update attributes lisp http://www.lee-mac.com/updatetitleblock.html. You can update attribute values from in blocks in individual drawing files. You can then datalink to your register for the Drawing Index.

They use a very similar system on multi-billion dollar projects all the time. It even scales down well 2-3 sheet projects. Bit of setup investment, not too difficult, totally worth it.