Text field origin

[byoungLW6M5]

I am new to the use of fields. I was given a project with drawings spread across into about 50 different subfolders. I am opening up drawings with a sheet set as well as by themselves, containing text fields. Some of them have hash tags, some of the have dashes instead of the real text. How can I tell what drawings or where the field is supposed to be reading from, so I can somehow reconnect it?

[VincentSheehan]

Could you search or zoom to the object based on the Object ID shown the field expression?

[paullimapa]

checkout this thread which includes Lee Mac's code to take a Field to get the entity:

https://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=38694.0

(defun Field->Entity ( en )
  (cond
    (
      (and
        (wcmatch (cdr (assoc 0 (setq en (entget en)))) "TEXT,MTEXT,ATTRIB")
        (setq en (cdr (assoc 360 en)))
        (setq en (dictsearch en "ACAD_FIELD"))
        (setq en (dictsearch (cdr (assoc -1 en)) "TEXT"))
        (setq en (cdr (assoc 360 en)))
        (setq en (cdr (assoc 331 (entget en))))
      )
      en
    )
  )
)

[TomBeauford]

Lee Mac's cleaned up code with a video demo at the bottom of the page.

https://www.lee-mac.com/fieldobjects.html