My first foray into Item Types and Text favorites!
I have Items that I can attach to elements that include Size and Material. I have a text favorite that includes the fields for Size and Material. This is working as expected until...
I am labeling existing utilities, and some of that information is missing for certain elements. I may know an element is 12" RCP, I may know it is 12" or I may know it is RCP. It's possible for an element to have only a portion of the full Item filled out.
As I am labeling along, I will occasionally come across one of these partially filled-in items. At that point, the text favorite stops updating, "stuck" on the last valid label placed. It will not update even if I subsequently select a completely Item-ized element - I still get that stuck label. If I'm not paying attention, or I'm in a region where the "stuck" value could be valid, I can place a lot of labels that are just plain wrong.
I would expect that the text favorite field would default to the expression if there is no value to fill it, not some bogus value that came from a different element entirely. I'd be a lot happier to see DrainageLink.Material in the label than I would the material type from the last element. That way I would know something was wrong!
Is this a setting I need to change somewhere, so that an error shows as an error? Is it possible to find and isolate elements based on missing item data so that I can label them separately with a more appropriate text favorite? I don't need to select them based on a specific value, just if there is a value or there isn't. Am I missing a fundamental concept, or is there a way to set up text favorites that will trap for errors?
This seems really great, but the lack of error trapping for the text favorites is disturbing.Thank you.
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