topic Re: Project info text to rename folders in the publisher in Documentation

Project info text to rename folders in the publisher

ChrisStow — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:17:56 GMT

Hi Graphisoft community,

I'm just double cheking there is no way of renaming the folders in the publishers set with project info text such as <PRJ_ID> etc etc.

Ideally we would like to have the published folders with the project number however dont want this to appear in the layout book as the folders names become a too long for everyday navigation.

Re: Project info text to rename folders in the publisher

Erwin Edel — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:40:37 GMT

This should work fine. We use <PROJECTNUMBER> for this reason. These fields seem to be case sensitive, by the way.

You do see the name you end up publishing in the publisher set, not sure what you mean by not seeing the name.

Re: Project info text to rename folders in the publisher

ChrisStow — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:04:42 GMT

Perfect this is briliant, many thanks Erwin

Re: Project info text to rename folders in the publisher

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:42:38 GMT

The following article contains all the keywords for the various Project Info Dialog fields:

https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/25/INT/#t=_AC25_Help%2F070_Documentation%2F070_Documentation-73.htm%23XREF_81352_Autotext_Keywords&rhsyns=%20

Re: Project info text to rename folders in the publisher

ChrisStow — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:58:53 GMT

That's perfect - just what we need.

Many thanks Laszio, really helpful.

Re: Project info text to rename folders in the publisher

ChrisStow — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:08:32 GMT

@Erwin Edel @Laszlo Nagy

Thanks both for your responses.

The rename works great for shortcut folders. Is there any method of renaming manually created folders in the publisher?

For example I have just added <PROJECT_ID> into a manually created folder in the publisher but it remains <PROJECT_ID> and doesn't change.

Re: Project info text to rename folders in the publisher

DGSketcher — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:43:49 GMT

Publisher folder naming with Autotext / keywords is best considered a work in progress. File naming seems to be ok, folder names not so much.

Re: Project info text to rename folders in the publisher

Erwin Edel — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:04:43 GMT

We don't use custom folders, so never ran in to this problem. I tested it here in AC23, doesn't work either. Folders directly lifted through the 'shortcut' from Layoutbook work fine though.

Re: Project info text to rename folders in the publisher

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:10:17 GMT

Chris,

You used the "Rename Folders" command on the folder, and not the "Rename Items" command. The "Insert Autotext" field must be present in the Dialog for you to be able to specify Autotext fields like <PROJECT_ID>, which is present in the "Rename Items" Dialog, and not present in the "Rename Folder" Dialog.

However, as the others mentioned, this does not seem to be implemented the way one would expect. I tried this and for me, it renamed all items within the Folder, not the Folder itself. So, using the "Rename Items" command on a folder is recommended when you want to specify the same code for all items within the Folder.

As far as I see, it is currently not possible to define a Autotext code for just a folder without affecting all items within that folder.

Re: Project info text to rename folders in the publisher

ape2000 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:29:16 GMT

Hi @Laszlo Nagy

Thanks for sharing, it is very helpful but I do not know why these codes are not explicitly shown somewhere in Archicad rather than Archicad help or at least added in the pop-up list that comes up when inputing the codes....

Re: Project info text to rename folders in the publisher

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 15:05:49 GMT

You can make a wish for this feature, we can vote on it (with only Likes for now), and if it gets enough support, we can submit it to GRAPHISOFT for consideration.

If you do make a wish, please post its link in this thread.