iLogic Form to Populate Titleblock on Multiple Sheets

iLogic Form to Populate Titleblock on Multiple Sheets

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iLogic Form to Populate Titleblock on Multiple Sheets

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So, I've created a real nice form to automatically populate the fields in my titleblock.  I did this by creating custom iProperties in my template .idw and then when I edit my form, the input updates the iProperties which in turn, populate the appropriate fields in the title block.  It works great...until I added a second sheet to my .idw file.  When I go to the second sheet to populate the title block, all the input that I used for the first sheet is already populated on the second sheet.  If I change the input to make the secoind sheet correct, it changes the first sheet title block too.  Ugh!!  So, I'm realizing that because I'm populating custom iProperties, it doesn't matter how many sheets there are, there's only one set of custom iProperties, therefore they keep changing.

 

Is there any way around this problem.  Unfortunately, there aren't custom iProperties for each sheet, which I think would solve my problem...although I'd have to create all the additional sheets ahead of time in my template.  Essentially what I want is prompted entries for each sheet, but I want them on my custom iLogic form, instead of the standard prompted entry window popping up.

 

This whole thing started because I wanted to change the active standard to something different for C and D size sheets (which I got working fine).  I figured since I could do that with an iLogic form, why not just populate the rest of the title block while I'm at it.

 

Any suggestions??

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MechMachineMan
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You are correct, .idw properties apply to the whole idw document.

The other way to do this is to have the titleblock pull properties from the parts that go in them.

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