I have a cell library in which I have defined Item Types and attached them to an element in the cells so that when they are placed, they will have the Item Types already attached. My aim is to produce a report that contains all the Item Type values along with the X,Y,Z coordinates of the cell origin. My report runs on 'Cells + related items.' which are Item Types. I have added all the columns for cell coordinates & Item Types. When I run the report though my table only populates results related to cell property values & not Item Types. The Item Type values do not come through. In the course of testing I have found that my report will work if I place a cell without an Item Type already attached, and then attach the Item Type after it has been placed. This seem like an unnecessary step, & will not work for me anyway as I am also displaying the Item Types in text field built into the cells. So I can’t add them later. I suspect that I can get it to work if ‘Add related Item’ the correct way. However, when I look at doing this I find myself in an endless loop going through an Item Type into a cel into an Item Type into a cell and so on. The screen capture below hopefully demonstrates this. Hoping for some feedback on how to get this to work.
Jovan Djukanovic said:I suspect that I can get it to work if ‘Add related Item’ the correct way. However, when I look at doing this I find myself in an endless loop going through an Item Type into a cel into an Item Type into a cell and so on
If you were to write "I find the Reports UI bizarre", then I would agree with you.
Post a DGN file with some tagged cells and your Item Type definition.
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
Indeed, not sure if I was more or less confused when I realised that the 'Item Types' section in Reports is not actually referring to the other type of 'Item Types.' I don't think 'Item Types' was the best choice of terminology in the first place. Similar to the 'Display Overrides' toggle in References not having anything to do with Level Overrides.
Hi Jovan,
From U16, we have renamed "Item Types" to "Objects".
Jovan Djukanovic said:If you were to write "I find the Reports UI bizarre", then I would agree with you
It will be very helpful for my team if you could create a single idea post with all Report UI concerns.
Thanks,
Mangesh
Thanks Mangesh, that sounds like a helpful change. I'm actually running Update 16 (10.16.00.80), but it is still saying Item Types. Maybe you meant Update 17?
Oops, my bad!
My colleague worked this out for Update16.1 under work ID#663296. The released version for Update16.1 is 10.16.01.56.
Answer Verified By: Jovan Djukanovic