Dynamic Block 'Multi-Viz' State Entry

[Colin-Pearson]

Hey y'all, just something I noticed today making a dynamic block w/the method provided by @Libbya ...

When you go to enter info on the last step in the Double Lookup, on the Input Properties side where your input is all of your Visibility States that you have to pick from the drop-down menu... I always found that to be kind of painful.  I just realized today that you can hold down or repeatedly press the first character of the Viz State name and it will cycle through every Viz State that begins with that character.  Might be handy, maybe not, just figured I'd pass it along.

[j.palmeL29YX]

Only recently I expressed my hope in another thread (>>Example<<) that Autodesk will improve the handling of the lookup tables.
Thanks for your tip, may help a little. But Autodesk has to do much more (e.g. support the import from excel tables or similar). Anyone who has created tables like the one linked above knows what I'm talking about ... 

In the meantime I'd appreciate each tip how to reduce the amount of work (I am with you - currently it is a pain).  Thanks again. 

[Colin-Pearson]

Yep, I'm working through 240 states right now @j.palmeL29YX ... super fun!

But I have a better one since that.  Pick your first Viz State from the drop down.  Then hit the down arrow (this enters your selection and takes you to the next blank line), then the up arrow (this takes you back to the line you just filled in), then hit the down arrow again (this takes the highlighted selection you are on and fills it down into the next row).  The beauty here is that now if you left click the second line, the drop down will be highlighted at your previous selection, so the one you ACTUALLY want is only a single line away so you eliminate  a ton of scrolling.

You can also fill in a bunch of empty lines on the right hand window of the input area with some dummy input (single characters to make it quick)... this keeps everything I'm talking about higher on the screen which means the drop down menu opens BELOW your current line and your cursor is only 1 line away each time.  Without the dummy lines, once you  get low enough on the screen, the drop down menu opens ABOVE your cursor ... although CAD does highlight your current selection so you can see the next one that you want, you do have to mouse much  further up the list compared to when it  opens down.