topic Re: Getting to Grips with AutoText in Documentation

Getting to Grips with AutoText

GeorgieB82 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:54:20 GMT

Hi,

Finally took the plunge and brought ArchiCad. Now I'm setting up my Master Sheets.

Can I change the way the AutoText date is formatted? At the Moment it is "28 January, 2016" whereas I would like it to read "28th January 2016"?

Also, Can I set it to ignore blank AutoText Fields? For Example when putting address lines.

Re: Getting to Grips with AutoText

Erwin Edel — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:31:54 GMT

"Date of Issue" in Project Info is a free text field, you can write there whatever you wish.

Re: Getting to Grips with AutoText

GeorgieB82 — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 11:54:58 GMT

But then its not AutoText if I have to manually input the date

Re: Getting to Grips with AutoText

Erwin Edel — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:43:52 GMT

Well, we generally set the date of issue for a project / phase once. And it hardly ever is the current date.

You write it in project info and use the autotext wherever you want (we have it set up for our 'stamp' at the bottom left of sheets).

Re: Getting to Grips with AutoText

James B — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:51:48 GMT

The date autotext format comes from the system, so you'd need to modify how your system displays dates.

This article should here:
https://wwabim.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/adjusting-autotext-date-appearance/

Re: Getting to Grips with AutoText

Erwin Edel — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:43:54 GMT

Right, that's the system date, as in the current date. Why would you want your drawing's issue date to change every day?

Re: Getting to Grips with AutoText

GeorgieB82 — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:47:33 GMT

Because I only do small projects that take a day and if I go back to it and reissue the drawings the date works as the version history as well.

Re: Getting to Grips with AutoText

Erwin Edel — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:53:43 GMT

GeorgieB82 wrote:
Because I only do small projects that take a day and if I go back to it and reissue the drawings the date works as the version history as well.

Interesting We work with issue date and then change dates, but the original issue date is important for us.

You could also use the revision/change/issue manager to set dates, I think. It uses the current date of whenever you close an issue for publishing. You can definitely use the information that is there as autotext. I'm using some custom issue parameters as autotext on sheets. You can even use those autotext in published files like PDF and DWG. It's quite nifty.

Re: Getting to Grips with AutoText

GeorgieB82 — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:01:39 GMT

It is interesting how different people work isn't it. We are only concerned with the most recent drawings! The date the drawings were first issued doesn't factor into our thinking.