Unique view names?

[CadUser46]

Since it's possible for two views to have the same name, is there a better method to identify them in the API?

I'm trying to cross reference which balloons are attached to which views but not being able to identify them uniquely with a GUID or such is causing a problem.

[BrandonBG]

Can you use DrawingViews.Item()? Then item numbers don't mean anything, but I believe all views are unique on a sheet. Beyond the sheet, I don't know how this would be useful.

Brandon

[CadUser46]

It;s an idea and i'll look into it but i'm not currently accessing the drawing views collection.  I think I'd still need to identify which ones are in the selectset against the collection using name.

[HermJan.Otterman]

you could add an attribute to each view...

then you'll have to write some code for every time you create a new view that an attribte is added with maybe the time or an other number

then you can use that attribute you ID the view...

[CadUser46]

Herman.  I'm not familiar with Attribute's.  Can you elaborate a bit further?

Are the attributes permanent or only have scope during runtime?  I only need to care when the macro is run so I guess I could iterate all the views on a sheet and add them each time.

[HermJan.Otterman · Accepted solution]

Hello CadUser,

look at these sites:

http://modthemachine.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/07/introduction-to-attributes.html

http://modthemachine.typepad.com/my_weblog/attributes/

[CadUser46]

Thanks Herman.  I'd read this a long time ago but never connected the dots before now.