Creating .keynotes file

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I know that cadimage keynotes has some default keynotes which can be imported from the extras file in archicad 20. How do you actually create a .keynotes file type? and what do you use to open it with?

Or is it best to just manipulate the one created by archicad?

[Ralph Wessel]

laz89 wrote:
Hi,
I know that cadimage keynotes has some default keynotes which can be imported from the extras file in archicad 20. How do you actually create a .keynotes file type? and what do you use to open it with?
Or is it best to just manipulate the one created by archicad?

The method for creating a .keynotes file depends on what you you want it for. If you're just setting up a new list of keynotes, it's best to simply create them with Keynotes (in ARCHICAD). You can then export that as a .keynotes file.

If you have an existing list of keynotes in some other format, you can import them into Keynotes as .txt or .csv (tab or comma-delimited data) and then re-export as .keynotes.

Otherwise, if you want to create a .keynotes file from a database or similar source, the content is simply an XML file that can be created/edited with any text editor. The basic structure (listing 2 keynotes) looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<keynotesAttributes>
	<keynoteDatabase>
		<records>
			<keynote key="40DCB7BA-400F-42FC-AA8D-560C55047EBD" edit="2015-06-10T20:22:45+12:00">
				<name>2</name>
				<title>Site</title>
			</keynote>
			<keynote key="2F5E1ACD-F3C0-4F88-B06B-6E4B43D1AECC" edit="2015-06-10T20:22:45+12:00">
				<name>2.04</name>
				<parent>40DCB7BA-400F-42FC-AA8D-560C55047EBD</parent>
				<title>The keynote title goes here</title>
				<description>The longer keynote description goes here</description>
				<reference>1234</reference>
			</keynote>
		</records>
	</keynoteDatabase>
</keynotesAttributes>

Every keynote is contained within the following tags:

			<keynote key="2F5E1ACD-F3C0-4F88-B06B-6E4B43D1AECC" edit="2015-06-10T20:22:45+12:00">
			</keynote>

The key is a guid (a unique ID) and edit is the last date/time the keynote was edited. The other tags within the keynote are:

• - name: The ID or clause number
  - parent: The guid of the parent keynote (for keynotes arranged in a hierarchy)
  - title: The short title of the keynote
  - description: A longer description for the clause (optional)
  - reference: A spec reference (optional - only used by some databases)