Putting a table in a dynamic block

Putting a table in a dynamic block

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Putting a table in a dynamic block

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I am creating a Dynamic block of a power panel and would like to add a single column table with attribute values that will be tallied at the bottom but i cannot seem to get the table to be editable from the drawing as an attribute. Does someone have a way for me to put a table within a block?

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MMcCall402
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Yea, you can't get to the cell values from outside the block. 

 

You can make attributes and use fields in the table to get the attribute values into the table cells, but, the table formula won't sum them up.  Without that its a little redundant, you might as well just locate the attributes over blank table cells.

 

You could make an field with a formula that adds up the values of the other attributes.  The glitch in that is the field will never update unless there is some dynamic action done to the block, even if the action does nothing, it triggers the update.

 

 

I haven't tried fields in the table to User parameters although I have a feeling they won't sum either. 

 

A user parameter that sums the other user parameters and is put into the table with a field might work.

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Libbya
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When a user parameter value is changed in properties, that change IS a dynamic action and so, the first update of a user parameter will 'jump start' the field update process.  You can also do as you say, and have the user parameter value be a sum formula for other user parameter values.  

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