I am trying to define a property of an item type so that - when I attach that item type to a shape - the area of that shape is shown in the property. I hope this is possible at least now? Can anyone point me to some documentation?
Luc Dierick
Paul,
I try to express me clearer. See attached screenshot.
I defined an Item Type "Lokaalfiches" and I attached this to the shape in the view. Now I would like to have the Area Property filled in automatically where I place the red ellipse.
I thought I saw once something with an expression but the expression Elements.Area does not seem to do the job?
Is there really no possibility?
> But can I report on the area with the new way of reporting on items? When I try to add columns I can only choose properties...
We are talking about the Reports dialog now, correct?
For documentation, open Reports dialog and press F1.
You can define a report which includes properties of multiple objects (including Items and Elements). This is easier to describe with screenshots.
1. Define your Report to include your Item Type, plus the Shape element to which it is attached:
2. Select columns from both your Item Type and the Shape element
HTH,
Paul
Answer Verified By: Luc Dierick
Unknown said:If your not in Connect
Item Types exist in CONNECT Edition only, so it's answered automatically the discussion is about CONNECT Edition. Why to answer at any cost?
Regards,
Jan
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Unknown said:Tags have been upgraded to items...
Tags have not been upgraded to anything in CONNECT. They remain as they are in MicroStation V8i. You can carry on working with tags in CONNECT just as you do in V8i.
Item Types are new for MicroStation CONNECT. For new tasks, Item Types are preferred over tags. Why? For numerous reasons, including:
Unknown said:In V8i you could use a tag and the text could also be a text field ...
It's not clear what you intended to tell us, but what comes over is muddled. Tags and text fields are two different, unrelated, technologies in MicroStation V8i.
Unknown said:... the area text label was dynamic
Text fields are dynamic. Unfortunately there's no reporting mechanism for text fields. You can't, for example, obtain an area report when using text fields.
Unknown said: The tag could be harvested to tag report and report on the area as an element atttribute
While tags have a reporting mechanism (in all versions of MicroStation), there's no built-in way by which an area tag can update itself automatically. That's one reason we invented AreaAnnotator.
AreaAnnotator is freeware for MicroStation V8i. It provides dynamic update to linear, area and volumetric tags that annotate appropriate DGN elements. You can use MicroStation's built-in tag reporting mechanism to create, for example, an area report.
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
Unknown said: Lorys If your not in Connect Regards, Jan
Lorys If your not in Connect
It was not answer at any cost it was trying to help a fellow user
....how can I get the end result... the result is more important when your boss is breathing down your neck...
So if he could not do it with connect and cannot wait for an answer ie the project has to be out tonight .. then I gave an out line of how to do it in V8i as an alternative and also how he might find an equivalent process in Connect ie Reports...fortunately it turned out that connect help was timely and Luc wasnt desperate yet......
Regards...
Lorys
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