Sheet numbering

Question

I&rsquo;m searching for a way to number sheets in Microstation. Being familiar with AutoCAD&rsquo;s Sheet Set Manager I was wondering if there is something similar in Microstation. From my limited research It appears that Tags are the key but I&rsquo;m uncertain how to utilize them. Any help pointing me in the direction would be apricated. 
 
 Power Geopak SS4 v08.11.09.878 
 Win 7

MaryB · Answer

It Depends how you want to do it, whether you reference sheet borders or place them in every sheet, and how complex your numbering scheme is. 
 Since we are most often concerned with Sheet numbering at time of printing, we use Print Organizer, combined with a few basic text substitutions from our pen table. This will automatically generate sheet number for our border that correspond to sheet number and number of sheets in the PSET. It's not very robust, it doesn't accommodate complex numbering schemes, and it doesn't handle cross-references well (See Sheet ##), but it covers about 95% of what we need. 
 Using Sheet Models, assigning Sheet numbers and using Text Fields in your title block will lend itself better to complex numbering schemes and cross referencing, but the last time I looked at it (which has been a while!) there was no good way to update numbers for added sheets, and nothing to "hold" a count of total sheets. I thought that Project Explorer offered a way to Renumber sheets, but I haven't had a chance to more than poke around a little for several years. 
 Tags aren't bad, but they have to be placed and maintained in each and every sheet drawing. The Help file actually has decent explanations about tags, their purpose and use under the section Composing Drawings -> Tagged Elements. They are not text, and they cannot be edited with the text editor unless they are "dropped" to plain text. If you want to go the route of an editable element placed in each file, You may be just as well off with a cell for your sheet numbers made up of plain text (instead of tags). You can edit text in a cell without dropping it, using just the plain text editor, and cells can be set up to use Annotation Scale (or not). 
 You can always look into a combination of approaches. Something like using Sheet properties (sheet number) with Fields for indivdual sheet numbers, static, editable text for total number of sheets, or some combination of static text, tags and text substitutions.