topic Re: AutoText not working in Documentation

AutoText not working

Laura Yanoviak — Fri, 19 May 2023 14:04:43 GMT

Instead of the following:

1560 Broadway, Denver CO 80202

This string is displayed in all Master Layouts:

<STREET>, <CITY> <COUNTRY> <CODE>

We've never had this problem before, but now it is consistently happening on different machines and all new PM files. I've tried deleting/retyping the necessary text into the Layout Book Info box. I even cut/paste this text string from a "working" PM file into a new file, but still no luck. All other AutoText entities are working fine.

In a hurry, no time to post screen shot -- any ideas? LJY

Re: AutoText not working

Aaron Bourgoin — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:11:42 GMT

Does the code not require something to say where this data is coming from?

Look at the Autotext codes inserted on a section marker in ArchiCAD - They start with PmA. Try that and you should get what you want.

Re: AutoText not working

David Maudlin — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:53:00 GMT

Laura wrote:
Instead of the following:

1560 Broadway, Denver CO 80202

This string is displayed in all Master Layouts:

<STREET>, <CITY> <COUNTRY> <CODE>

In a hurry, no time to post screen shot -- any ideas? LJY

Laura:

Has this information been filled in under Book>Book Info... ? Just a guess.

David

Re: AutoText not working

Laura Yanoviak — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:12:56 GMT

David wrote:
Has this information been filled in under Book>Book Info... ? Just a guess.

Yes it has.

Well... came in this morning and now all is as it should be (I had tried a cold reboot yesterday as part of my attempts to remedy the situation, and this too did not help). All I have gleamed from this is it had something to do with more than one AutoText entity in a single line of text. Thanks for the help, LJY.

Re: AutoText not working

TomWaltz — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:51:08 GMT

Aaron wrote:
Does the code not require something to say where this data is coming from?

Look at the Autotext codes inserted on a section marker in ArchiCAD - They start with PmA. Try that and you should get what you want.

The autotext codes in section and detail markers are fake. They have no actual bearing on what Plotmaker does. I abbreviated our custom markers to <DR> and <SHT> so they did not look so obnoxious.

Thanks to Mr Lohden for that little trivia....

Re: AutoText not working

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 07:25:02 GMT

I have a similar problem where the Autotext label is not displaying the object ID. It worked fine previously on the same project.

Re: AutoText not working

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:32:00 GMT

I suspect that the Label was not placed with the "Associative" Geometry Method, so it is a static Label.
However, you can select any static Label and CTRL-click on any element and the Label will become associated to that Element, and display the Element ID properly.

Re: AutoText not working

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 06:11:50 GMT

Worked like a charm, thank you very much.