Inserting physical properties into drawing notes programmatically

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm simply trying to insert the <MASS> physical property into a drawing note, through the `DrawingNote.FormattedText` property.

When the note is nothing but manually entered text, or when the physical property exists already, it's fine; but when the note contains a user parameter, it causes the whole string to become unformatted and show just the XML-ish string instead.

Here is the process I am using. The property-invoking string I got from inspecting a note with this already inserted manually.

Sub Main()
	Dim oApp As Application = ThisApplication
	Dim oDoc As DrawingDocument = ThisDoc.Document

	Dim sUndoTrnsName As String = "Insert Mass"
	Dim trnsUndo As Transaction = oApp.TransactionManager.StartTransaction(oDoc, sUndoTrnsName)

	For Each oSheet As Sheet In oDoc.Sheets
		For Each oNote As DrawingNote In oSheet.DrawingNotes
			oNote.FormattedText = oNote.FormattedText + "<PhysicalProperty PhysicalPropertyID='72449' Precision='3'>MASS</PhysicalProperty>"
		Next
	Next

	trnsUndo.End
End Sub

[Anonymous]

So looking into it further I can say it's clearly some kind of character encoding issue.

Simply assigning `DrawingNote.FormattedText`, or `DrawingDimension.Text.FormattedText`, to itself, when it contains a user parameter, produces the same result.

I've tried using `Regex.Escape` but it's no use.