Update Globelform to Aktive document

[Darkforce_the_ilogic_guy]

it is possible to make the globle form always be like to the aktive document, so if I would like to be able to change witch document  I am working on without have to open and close the Globel form all the time.  ?

[dutt.thakar]

@Darkforce_the_ilogic_guy 

Can you elaborate on this a bit? Maybe via snapshots or a short screencast, not able to understand what exactly you are trying to achieve.

[bsnyderACLUW]

@dutt.thakar 

Sounds like his question is the same as one I asked a few years ago. 

@Darkforce_the_ilogic_guy 

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe your talking about a situation where you have several documents open and a global form that has functions that work on any of the documents you have open. to make a change to several documents you will need to run a rule from the form, close the form, move to the next document and reopen the form to run the rule again. 

If the form is not closed and reopened for each document, it will run any rule in the form on the document it was first ran on.

Unfortunately, I never got a solid response on this topic. To my knowledge it is not possible. 

One alternative would to be place your rules into the forms panel by right clicking in a blank spot in the forms panel. Here you will be able to add rules to the forms panel like you do when making a Global form. There is limited space so I place the most used ones in the panel and leave the rest in the Global Form I made for them. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5lxC4BdJ4

 

The other option I ran across was creating a custom ribbon tab in the tool bar, this is what I currently use:

It re-runs itself for each document opened. 

This link is what I started with:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/ilogic-adding-macro-buttons-to-a-custom-ribbon...

[Darkforce_the_ilogic_guy]

Yes you right that I what my problem is  🙂

[A.Acheson]

@Darkforce_the_ilogic_guy  Your talking about running rules from your global forms.

I have several forms set up for model and drawing template but when I switch document it will run on the previous document that I first opened the form in until I remember to close and reopen.

I haven’t seen a method to close and reopen. I assume the active document/ edit document snippet has nothing to do with its functionality? 

It too is getting annoying especially when working with drawings as you end up putting information in the wrong document. The workflow is not seamless at the moment.  

[Darkforce_the_ilogic_guy]

I did not solved it by Globel form but It look like I work if I build it in VBA User form. now I just need to fund out have to Dock the D. Form 😄😀😂