[CE U11] - Cascading Item Sets

Paul Patterson said:

I'm creating some item sets

Do you mean Item Types?

Yes!

Sorry - stuffed up the terminology!

Hi Paul,

no, Item Types currently does not support this feature.

There are some planned enhancements (EC Expressions), available in MicroStation CE U10 and U11 as Technology Preview, but I guess the asked workflow (menu dependency) will be not available. I see two issues here:

• What should work as a lookup table? In another words: When value A will be selected in menu 1, where values for menu 2 will come from? Maybe it would be possible to implement it using Pick Lists (another Technology Preview feature), but it will require further analysis.
• There is no "events monitoring" possible, so there is no way how to update menu 2 based on event raised in menu 1. The menu content is filled when the menu is selected by a user, not when something happened in another menu.

I recommend to post your request to Ideas section.

With regards,

  Jan

Paul Patterson said:

I'm creating some Item Types, and am wondering if it's possible to update a second property definition based on the first selection

AFAIK that's not possible with vanilla Item Types.  You would need an app. to achieve that.  What is it that you're looking at tagging with your Item Types?

Thank you, Jan!