Microstation Place text with "predefined" text

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Hello, its me again. 
 I was wondering if there is any keyin to place text with already text in it. For example : I press custom button and the button will open text dialog with preset text in it. Is there any way to do that? Now Iam using the "place dialogtext" keyin but I want to make it more automated. PS Iam using microstation V8i SS3 
 Thanks for any suggestions

Lorys · Answer

Ondřej Frolík said: I was wondering if there is any keyin to place text with already text in it. 
 depends on how automated you want it, and how many different texts do you want? 
 A couple of ways ( I used v8i) 
 1. you can create your own custom menu pull down to find all the texts quicker that list all the texts you set up with the place text and the string in quotes, but dont try to use too many as it defeats the purpose to make long lists. and use the cut copy paste text into your text editor. 
 2. make cell library with all your permutations of custom cells text and use a custom menu pull down for easy finding. 
 3. if you only have a few say up to 5 or so then create a custom drg with the texts and use it as reference file and then attach and copy paste what you want now you can define a keyin to attach this ref file via a F key RF=" define full path and file name" you'll need to look up attach ref to work out how many commas follow but I no longer have access to mstn to check the help... but its quit simple , remember to use quotes especially if there are spaces in path. 
 I'm not sure if CE has favourites for entire words or sentences.

Microstation Place text with "predefined" text

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