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Revisions Field in Autotext

Anonymous
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I know something like this has been discussed before, but could we please, please have a field in Autotext called 'Revision' which gets added to the file name in publisher between the Layout number and the Layout name, so that the first revision of:

P_300 Plan.PDF

will be saved as:

P_300_A Plan.PDF

to eliminate the risk of the revised layout overwriting the previous issue.

Not difficult, surely. But so important for our practice, and, judging from the previous feedback, for many many others.

(Of course, it would be really nice if it could be linked to a revisions notes panel on the layout, but I guess that would be just too much to ask)
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Wokka
Contributor
Yep, we definitley need some autotext that is available for each individual layout.
Warwick Lloyd-Martin
3 D E N V I R O N M E N T
http://www.3de.com.au
Windows 11 Pro 64bit
ArchiCad 4.55>27 AUS
Lumion 12.5/2023
D5 Render
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Are you guys aware that you can create as many custom Autotext items as you want?
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Anonymous
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this wish has been around for a few revisions of ArchiCAD and I'm sure would only require a small time investment by GS to give a huge benefit to users.
Laslo you may not understand but it is per layout...not global
Anonymous
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laszlonagy wrote:
Are you guys aware that you can create as many custom Autotext items as you want?
Yes, but if I create a field called 'revision', I don't see a way of getting this incorporated in the layout number, and hence into the published file name.
Wokka
Contributor
I think we need something like this...
Warwick Lloyd-Martin
3 D E N V I R O N M E N T
http://www.3de.com.au
Windows 11 Pro 64bit
ArchiCad 4.55>27 AUS
Lumion 12.5/2023
D5 Render
Anonymous
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wokka i like your animated gif

going from green to red are you getting angry...

....or is it red to green????!!
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Achille wrote:
No, please share your knowledge.
What I meant was that in the Project Info Dialog you can create new custom entries and use these as AutoText in Text Blocks on Layouts.
One of them could be called Revision Number.
Of course one would have to change the value of it at each revision so it is not an automatic thing.
So let us say there is a new revision, one saves a new PLN file and then changes this entry to the new value in that file.
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2x28" (2560x1440), Windows 10 PRO ENG, Ac20-Ac27
Sorry, that is not usefull.
In a project there can be layouts with revision 0, others with revision 1, revision 2 etc...
The revision field must be layout-related, not project-related.
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