topic Re: Enhanced Revision History object in Libraries & objects

Enhanced Revision History object

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:40:39 GMT

Graphisoft has created an enhanced version of the Revision History object based on user feedback.
You will notice that now there is a Revision History Simple and there is a Revision History Detailed object. Previously both of these styles were included in one object.

Enhancements are:

1. New alignment functions to accommodate national standards
The list within the object can now be set to align to the bottom of the table, with the order of revisions progressing in either forward or reverse order
In the earlier version of the object, rows of the revision history table were always filled from top to bottom, even when the Title Row was set to be at the bottom of the table and revisions progressed from bottom to top. Now, rows of the table can be filled starting from the bottom.

2. New filter functions
o Show latest revision only checkbox – With this option it is now possible to display details of only the latest revision. Some firms like to place a simple Revision History object showing all the revisions (but without their details), plus a detailed Revision History object showing all the details of the last revision. With this new option this becomes possible.
o Filter Revisions based on criteria checkbox – You can define a filter criteria based on Layout-, revision- or layout-related parameters and items matching the criterion will be filtered out from being displayed in the Revision History object. This is useful e.g. for hiding Addendum revisions after they have been included in the next Phase issue. In this case you can e.g. set the criterion to filter out items the Revision ID of which contains a certain string of characters.

3. Separately resizable Title row
Each cell of the Title Row of the table now has a hotspot in its lower right corner using which you can resize not only the width of the column of that cell, but the height of that Title row cell as well. Another set of hotspots continue to be available in the lower right corners of the cells of the first value row of the revision history table to resize their widths and heights.

4. Numerous fixes in handling word wrapping
The object now handles better graphically those situation when text in a cell does not fit the cell width and word wrapping need to be used. Also, in the Attributes page of the Revision History Settings panel of the object, there is a new parameter called Title Text Vertical Alignment, the default of which is "Align to Center".

Due to technical reasons these objects are not included in a Library Hotfix. Instead the were uploaded to bimcomponents.com:

Revision History 18 - https://bimcomponents.com/LCF/Details/4532 - All
Revision History NCS 18 - https://bimcomponents.com/LCF/Details/4536 - USA
Index-Historie 18 - https://bimcomponents.com/LCF/Details/4535 - GER, AUT, CHE
改訂記録 18 - https://bimcomponents.com/LCF/Details/4534 - JPN

The language-specific version can also be downloaded from within ArchiCAD.

These enhanced version object will be part of the standard package of the next ArchiCAD version.

Re: Enhanced Revision History object

Eduardo Rolon — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:07:30 GMT

Can't seem to get the "New and Improved" Revision to match the Original. It is grouping all the changes and I need them to be one to each line.

What am I missing?

Re: Enhanced Revision History object

Eduardo Rolon — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:53:53 GMT

Found it, the US version does not have the detailed option.

Re: Enhanced Revision History object

Link — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:57:30 GMT

Thanks for this Laszlo!

Presumably if we link these objects into our projects and GS provide them in the standard library later, they will migrate perfectly?

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Enhanced Revision History object

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:17:46 GMT

Link wrote:
Thanks for this Laszlo!

Presumably if we link these objects into our projects and GS provide them in the standard library later, they will migrate perfectly?

Cheers,
Link.

I assume it will migrate perfectly, since migration usually works fine with default ArchiCAD library objects.

Re: Enhanced Revision History object

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 22:12:55 GMT

There is now a clip explaining the new feature of the Revision History Object in ARCHICAD 19:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZIbUioBCw0

Re: Enhanced Revision History object

Gerald D Lock — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 23:32:30 GMT

The ArchiCAD 21 Revision History object appears to have a major bug: the settings tab is greyed-out so users are unable to edit.
Furthermore the object is not populating with revision history data.

Re: Enhanced Revision History object

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 20:49:04 GMT

If you start a New Project base on the default Template, do you still encounter the same problem? If not, it may be a file-specific issue.