<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>How to place and update fields in MicroStation?</title><link>/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/mark_penns_blog/posts/how-to-place-and-update-fileds-in-microstation</link><description>Fields are basically self-updating text. A field points to a property of an object and display its value. When the value changes, the text update and show the new value. 
 How to place a field: 
 You can place fields using Place Text tool. Select Insert</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: How to place and update fields in MicroStation?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/mark_penns_blog/posts/how-to-place-and-update-fileds-in-microstation</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 21:03:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:fcfe42fc-f44f-480c-85a8-12ce7bf2b1ff</guid><dc:creator>Sang Yoon Kim</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Is it possible to see the videos on this? I&amp;#39;m not seeing the link. Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=124193&amp;AppID=85109&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: How to place and update fields in MicroStation?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/mark_penns_blog/posts/how-to-place-and-update-fileds-in-microstation</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:48:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:fcfe42fc-f44f-480c-85a8-12ce7bf2b1ff</guid><dc:creator>Oto</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Fields are great but they miss some of important features:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. Too many clicks to attach fields. Need some better GUI or key-ins to add fields.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. Not enough options to format results. There is need for some custom expressions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. Not possible to do at least simple calculations for example multiply by scale factor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4. Selecting Text doesn&amp;#39;t highlight to which element it belongs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=124193&amp;AppID=85109&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: How to place and update fields in MicroStation?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/mark_penns_blog/posts/how-to-place-and-update-fileds-in-microstation</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 06:05:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:fcfe42fc-f44f-480c-85a8-12ce7bf2b1ff</guid><dc:creator>Jing Jing</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Mark,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m interested to your video in Place Holder Link Property. Could you please post it again?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;jing jing&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=124193&amp;AppID=85109&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: How to place and update fields in MicroStation?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/mark_penns_blog/posts/how-to-place-and-update-fileds-in-microstation</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:51:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:fcfe42fc-f44f-480c-85a8-12ce7bf2b1ff</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;It only appears to work for the &amp;quot;place note&amp;quot; tool not the &amp;quot;place text&amp;quot;. If you want to place a block of text I suggest using the place note tool and selecting &amp;quot;none&amp;quot; as the textbox style&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="https://communities.bentley.com/aggbug?PostID=124193&amp;AppID=85109&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: How to place and update fields in MicroStation?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/bentley_employees/b/mark_penns_blog/posts/how-to-place-and-update-fileds-in-microstation</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:16:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:fcfe42fc-f44f-480c-85a8-12ce7bf2b1ff</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Mark,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#39;t get the fields to auto-update in V8i SS2, whether by setting auto-update on in the model, or by using MS_AUTO_UPDATE_FIELD/MS_AUTO_UPDATE_FIELDs (both spellings appear on the BE Communities site). I see that others have the same problem - is this feature broken?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;cheers&lt;/p&gt;
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