topic Re: Issue Manager set up glitch in Documentation

Issue Manager set up glitch

DMA_NYC — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:39:42 GMT

My apologies if this issue is covered elsewhere. I am trying to set up the Issue Manager, primarily so I can activate an “issued button” in my drawing list. But I can see other benefits. I have a small practice and a maximum 30 drawings per project. I‘m tired of manually adding checkmarks over that box on the cover layout.

I understand that there may be an opportunity within the document Issue Manager to activate that check mark in the drawing list. Every time I try and set it up, The issue Manager defaults to a Change Manager format, with views, elements, and comments. I can’t get it to go to “Add Drawings” from the Layout Book. I expect there should just be a switch, or an “Add Drawing” button available. But it’s no where to be found, and I’ve tried a lot of combinations, including a fresh AC templarevwith nothing published, so no change.m
Is this a known issue? I’ve tried to force feed it from the Layout Book with a “right click” (a recommendation from Chad GPT) but that doesn’t work either.

ArchiCAD 28 US.

Thanks in advance, Doug M.

Re: Issue Manager set up glitch

Lingwisyer — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 01:20:40 GMT

Issue Manager? As in the Transmittal palette? Drawing List as in the Publisher or the Index Schedule? What checkmarks?

Is that what you are talking about when you mention "Add Drawing"?

Ling.

Re: Issue Manager set up glitch

DMA_NYC — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:48:37 GMT

Good morning.

I’ve added a couple annotated screen grabs that may clarify the dilemma.

Re: Issue Manager set up glitch

Laszlo Nagy — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:14:24 GMT

Transmittals were called "Issues" in earlier versions.

Then, when the Issue Manager/Issue Organizer (earlier called MarkUp palette) was introduced, Issues were renamed Transmittal Sets to avoid confusion (although some confusion was probably inevitable).

So, the so-called Issues you create and see in the Issue Manager/Organizer enable you to track problems, things to do, things to correct, etc., and you can export/import these as BCF (BIM Collaboration Format) to communicate them to people using other applications. It has nothing to do with Transmittal Sets, so they will not be reflected by the value of the "Issued" parameter.

If you check the Index Settings, the name of the field may not even be "Issued" ( because no Change/View/Layout/Drawing/Transmittal Set parameter exists with this name), only the text that appears in the Index was modified to say "Issued". Or, if the field is called "Issued", then it is probably a custom Layout parameter that was created in the Book Settings Dialog's Layout Info Scheme panel.

Re: Issue Manager set up glitch

DMA_NYC — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:55:21 GMT

Thanks for your detailed reply Laszlo.
I probably won’t venture into using those tools for my work flow. It appears to be more challenging than the benefits will merit on small projects.

However, I have discovered that the ISSUE boxes will be checked when publishing… and I don’t know why they didn’t before.
Also, I learned that if ascending/descending flag isn’t selected on any of the volumns, the DRAWING LIST will follow the order of the drawings in the Layout Book. Consequently, I won’t need the SEQ (sequence) column. I had created that problem because I didn’t recognize the default was all I needed.
So, we can say this issue is resolved.

Thanks again.