Adding Instance Parameters or Dynamic Text to Keynote Families

[Anonymous]

I'm developing an improved keynote family and am struggling with the highly restrained functionality of the keynotes. What I want to do seems simple:

Create a dynamic text field adjacent to the key in the keynote family, one which I can edit within the viewport for purposes of clarifying what the keynote references. Note that this is NOT the keynote label text, but an editable field that is blank by default and which has no effect on other instances of the same keynote. It will be filled with things like "typ, sim, beyond, etc".

I would like this to be part of the keynote family rather than grouped text, but am increasingly considering workarounds. I have also attempted to make an instance parameter to toggle the visibility of text in the keynote family, but find that the parameter doesn't appear in the properties browser. 

Am I confused? Expecting too much from keynotes?

 

[cbcarch]

I have never tried this, but--

-You could try "nesting" a Generic Annotation Family with a Label in it, into the Keynote Tag family.

Give the Label "instance parameters".

-Save/Load into the Project.?-You may need Project Parameters and/or Shared Parameters for this to work?

Perhaps give it a try on a blank/new test project and report back your findings.

[barthbradley]

I don't see why this can't work.  As long as the tag references a Shared Parameter field that the object being tagged has in its Properties, you should be able to do this. 

[barthbradley]

...okay, I crashed and burned.  Tried every trick I know. Seems Keynote Tags only read Type Params.   I'm sticking around.  Might learn a new trick. 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Barth, Cliff. I've tried with nested families and had success creating the functionality that I wanted within a generic annotation family, but find that the behavior of them within keynotes is quite different. I wonder why Autodesk has so limited the parameterization of keynotes?

[cbcarch]

-Perhaps use a different type of Tag, with the nested GA. That should work well for what you are doing.

-The Keynote Tag is designed to work specifically with the Keynote Text file, and probably was never intended to be  "hacked" into the type of tag you are needing.