Dear Developers,
Please, please, please give us a user keynote that does not require a host. The user keynote requiring a host costs me a lot of time. In fact I would venture to say that there is virtually no advantage to having a user keynote that requires a host.
What is the point of having it require a host? You move the element and the keynote goes with it? Not so much. Is the advantage that when you delete the element the user keynote is also deleted? If there's an advantage there I'm not seeing it.
I am always wanting to keynote elements of drawings that do not function as a host. That means I have to find a host in order to generate a keynote, then move the keynote and it's leader to the appropriate element. That gets very time consuming. Especially if you want to keynote drafting views which I do.
Here is another thing that is seriously bad about a user keynote that requires a host. I'm working on a condominium project where a number of units or condominiums are linked together to create the different buildings and I of course document the buildings from the host file. The units that are linked into the buildings are of course changing and being developed. This is where a user keynote that requires a host becomes a time consuming pain because as the units are changed the keynotes in the host file will lose their original host and then you have to run around and find new hosts for all of the keynotes that have lost their hosts or add them back if they've been deleted when you deleted an element. Very, very time consuming and you've done nothing productive. Also, let's take a simple example of a gyp. bd. ceiling that has been changed in a linked file. When you go to the host file the keynotes which have used that ceiling as a host have now moved around to locations where you then have to move them to get them where they should be. Also very time consuming.
To sum up, A user keynote that does not require a host would be a tremendous advantage in my opinion.
Also something to strongly consider is the ability to add more than one leader to a keynote much the same way you can add additional leaders to text notes.
Sincerely,
Keith Harvey