MS_Celllist - Order of Cells

Hi all

I have a small question.

My company is in the middle of the intregration to CONNECT and in that connection my question comes up.

I have a long list of Cell libraries. Is there any way I can choose the order of the cells in the drop down list?

Best regards Louise

  • Hi Louise,

    When you define paths to cells libraries using MS_CELLLIST in your configuration you can use a pre-pend or append operator to control which libraries are read first: e.g.:

    MS_CELLLIST < ....\name.cel

    MS_CELLLIST > ....\name.cel

    If you have multiple CFG files containing MS_CELLLIST the order in which they are read will also affect the order of the list.

    The last pre-pend statement to be read will appear at the top of the list in the cell dialog.

    Marc

    Answer Verified By: Louise Kærgaard Khammar 

  • does the list need to be so long ? do you need access to every one of those cell libraries for every project and every file you work on ?

    or - could you limit the list based on the project being worked on ? (IE: Project 43546 only needs to see 15 of the cell libraries)

    If this is the case you might want to look at loading the MS_CELLLIST variable per Workspace/Workset and only populate the variable with the needed cell libraries.

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