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Reference note numbers in symbols, text, and leader text

Reference note numbers in symbols, text, and leader text

Many engineering drawings benefit from specific note call-outs (flag notes). We have put a custom symbol together for balloons that allows us to attach another custom symbol for note callouts. The flag note symbol has a prompted entry field that can be edited to reference different notes in a text box but it's in no way connected to the notes. This becomes a problem when a drawing has dozens of notes, callouts, and sheets, and requires additional notes to be added. Every single prompted entry needs to be checked/changed to ensure the correct instruction is being referenced.

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If we had the ability to directly reference numbered items in a text note, that would be fantastic. Creating a referenceable field seems like the most difficult part since inventor would have no way of knowing which text field contains the numbered list you want to reference, and the note text itself doesn't have any referenceable data. It might be good to be able to add hyperlinks to notes (similar to how bookmarks work in pdf files). This way, a user could highlight a numbered list, or each numbered item individually, and apply links to those numbers.
Once those fields exist, it would be great if a prompted entry could be modified to reference different parameters or iproperties (on a symbol to symbol basis). i.e. one symbol might just us a prompted entry but another instance of that symbol may be connected to a note number (or any other normal field which can be referenced in notes).

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