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Add option to link ALL data in a revision table to iProperties - Add Revision Row

Add option to link ALL data in a revision table to iProperties - Add Revision Row

Revision tables in the drawing environment are controlled through styles - i.e. you can link iProperties to each column of data by editing the table style. For instance, our revision table has four columns: Rev, Description, Date, and Aprv. which are linked to the REVISION NUMBER, COMMENTS, ENG APPROVAL DATE, and ENG APPROVED BY iProperties, respectively, through the revision table style.

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Each time we edit a drawing, weather it's a new drawing or an uprev, we have to edit the iProperties in order to affect changes to the revision table without forcing static values. For instance, to uprev a drawing, we have to right click on the revision table and select "Add revision row" which automatically opens the revision table. We then have to close the table and open up iProperties instead and edit those. There's one exception where toggling "Update Property to Revision Number" allows a change in the revision table to affect the REVISION NUMBER iProperty. However, it would be much more intuitive to allow users to edit the revision table directly and have those edits all be reflected in the iProperties. 

 

For our workflow, we would right click the revision table and click "Add revision row". The revision table would open with a new row containing the auto-incremented rev level. We would edit the description, date, and aprv. data in that row and they would not become static values - they'd link to the iProperties and change them to match what we input. We'd close the table and be done. Easy peasy - no extra windows, mouse clicks, etc. and no extra training for new-hires. This is the intuitive thing to do.

 

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Please add a new button to the revision table window to allow users to have a two-way link between the active row data and its corresponding drawing iProperties.

 

2 Comments
marcin_otręba
Advisor

But why do you do it this way? 

double click on revision table -it will open it

click addnew row:

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then click iproperties:

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fill whatever you want:

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and this is all:

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bike_josh
Enthusiast

@marcin_otręba 

I know that there are multiple ways of adding a new revision row and getting to the iProperties. For the sake of clarity, I decided not to try and type them all out. Autodesk set the table up so that the revision can be connected to the iProperties directly so that changes to the rev table can affect the iProperties without creating a static value. However, any other information on that row cannot be changed (unless I'm missing some key setting) without forcing them to be static values, highlighted blue. 

 

I followed your steps to get this:

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My first column of data is the rev level which, as I said, is connected to the REVISON NUMBER iProperty. I can change it in the table without forcing a static value and the iProperties will track along with it. However, if I change the description, date, or aprv. data, they are forced to be static instead of allowing the iProperties to update -- even though they're connected to the DESCRIPTION, ENG APPROVAL DATE, and ENG APPROVED BY iProperties. The only way I've found to make those values update on the active row without creating static values is to update the iProperties directly. This is cumbersome. 

 

Does that make sense?

 

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