MicroStation Connect Item types and Reports

Jack Morgan said:

Trying to get the X,Y and Z coordinates of that SOP cell into a item type and then put into a report  to then be added into the table

XYZ origin coordinates are properties of a DGN cell element.  It would be duplication to define an Item Type property with the same information.

There are some Report definitions that harvest properties of different types of element in this article.  That includes an example report definition that harvests cell data, including the coordinates you want.

Jack Morgan said:

Trying to get the X,Y and Z coordinates of that SOP cell into a item type and then put into a report  to then be added into the table

XYZ origin coordinates are properties of a DGN cell element.  It would be duplication to define an Item Type property with the same information.

There are some Report definitions that harvest properties of different types of element in this article.  That includes an example report definition that harvests cell data, including the coordinates you want.

Jon, 

Thank you for the response, I have found your help useful, but I still have some questions regarding the certain cell and item types within that cell as I don't understand how the report grabs the correct information I need to show in the table.

Look forward to hearing back form you.

Jack Morgan said:

I still have some questions regarding the certain cell and item types within that cell as I don't understand how the report grabs the correct information

I sympathise: I wrote those Report Examples to clarify for myself what needs to be done when creating a Report definition.  Manipulating the Reports Dialog user interface is not intuitive.  I would not have completed those report designs without the help of responders on this Forum.

Jack Morgan said:

I am trying to create a Cell Library for setting out points, to be able to add the cell into the model and then from the sheet click onto the Cell and be automatically updated to the tabl

You're probably not alone in that thought process.  Can you design a table in Excel that shows what you want to see?  Post it here, then see what others can come up with.