Status and Revision on Revision History

ARix — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:56:11 GMT

Hi,

I think maybe this issue is very simple but I cannot wrap my head around transmissons vs revisions vs changes in the context i am trying to use them. I have spent a lot of time on the Archicad 29 guide and the forums and I still can't work out how to do this properly. The problem is:

Currently our revision history looks like this:

The status of all the drawings is controlled via a transmittal set ID (D1, D2, (for design issues) P1, P2, (for planning issues) T1, T2, (for tender issues) etc.)

The revision letter of any individual drawing is currently controlled via a "change ID" which I manually add to the layouts incimenting them by one letter each time. This is what I have been made aware is the "wrong" way of doing things as it means I cant use the change feature for its actual purpose and also I cannot automatically add the revision letter to the exported drawing file name in the publisher.

Is there an intended way of having a status of a drawing (which is consistent across all drawings the moment they are issued) and then a revision letter of a drawing (which simply increments by one letter everytime the drawing is re-issued)? I think I am supposed to be using Transmittal set ID for the status and then Revison ID for the lettered revision of the drawing but I cannot work out how to get the revision as a letter that incriments individually on each drawing. This is the national standard here so I can't really just settle for numbers.

Do let me know if there are any questions as I am finding this unessesarily confusing myself... I could also be missing something very simple.

Thanks so much in advance.

Operating system used: Windows

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Status and Revision on Revision History