[ORD V10.06.00.38] I am using the configuration variable CIVIL_SURVEY_APPEND_ATTRIBUTES_TO_DESCRIPTION =1 so that my attributes will appear in the description field but it is not working.....??

RE: [ORD V10.06.00.38] I am using the configuration variable CIVIL_SURVEY_APPEND_ATTRIBUTES_TO_DESCRIPTION =1 so that my attributes will appear in the description field but it is not working.....??

Mark Plum — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:37:32 GMT

Well, I'll be... yep, there they are!

Thanks, cbaird!

RE: [ORD V10.06.00.38] I am using the configuration variable CIVIL_SURVEY_APPEND_ATTRIBUTES_TO_DESCRIPTION =1 so that my attributes will appear in the description field but it is not working.....??

Corey Baird — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:16:38 GMT

By the way I was able to find the General Settings under the 'OpenRoads Standards>Survey Settings>Rt.MouseClick-New' Setting.

RE: [ORD V10.06.00.38] I am using the configuration variable CIVIL_SURVEY_APPEND_ATTRIBUTES_TO_DESCRIPTION =1 so that my attributes will appear in the description field but it is not working.....??

Corey Baird — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:14:29 GMT

Thanks Mark.

RE: [ORD V10.06.00.38] I am using the configuration variable CIVIL_SURVEY_APPEND_ATTRIBUTES_TO_DESCRIPTION =1 so that my attributes will appear in the description field but it is not working.....??

Mark Plum — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:07:54 GMT

On a related note, but ORD specific, here is a video which shows how attributes are dealt with in ORD.

communities.bentley.com/.../video-survey-attributes-annotation

RE: [ORD V10.06.00.38] I am using the configuration variable CIVIL_SURVEY_APPEND_ATTRIBUTES_TO_DESCRIPTION =1 so that my attributes will appear in the description field but it is not working.....??

Mark Plum — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:05:39 GMT

I am using ORD 10, R4, and the item "Append Notes to Description" does not show up (in fact, there is no "General Settings" dialog at all). I made a work around by creating a text favorite which used another column in the Text Import Wizard ("Description") to append the Note. So, my Txt import file reads "Point Name, N, E, Elev, Description". Proper Annotation Groups/ Text Favorites in ORD are the key to ORD!

RE: [ORD V10.06.00.38] I am using the configuration variable CIVIL_SURVEY_APPEND_ATTRIBUTES_TO_DESCRIPTION =1 so that my attributes will appear in the description field but it is not working.....??

Corey Baird — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:16:31 GMT

Thank you Chris for the good information. I tried the Note to Description method and it worked well for Notes but It did not work for Attributes. If you happen to think of another idea that would allow us to append attributes to the description that would be great otherwise I'll not worry about it. It's not a show stopper for us. I was just thinking it would be nice so that we could use the Descriptions Decoration to quickly turn on/off the display of them. We still have the annotation that works for us. Thanks again.

RE: [ORD V10.06.00.38] I am using the configuration variable CIVIL_SURVEY_APPEND_ATTRIBUTES_TO_DESCRIPTION =1 so that my attributes will appear in the description field but it is not working.....??

Chris Key — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:15:00 GMT

I started looking into the civil survey variables and I believe this variable is only specific for the SS4 products and didn't carry up to OpenRoads Designer. There was another variable that was used as well called CIVIL_SURVEY_APPEND_NOTES_TO_DESCRIPTION, but I think this has moved to the General Settings in survey settings.

You may try setting the Append Notes to description to True. It may carry the attributes into the description.