making smart issue sheets

[Anonymous]

hi guys.
I have been playing with creating an issue sheet in archicad for the first time.
I have to create a issue sheet similar if not completely identical to my companies existing issue sheet.

i have been able to create most parts in the issue sheet but the one problem i have bumbed into is, when i want to create a smart entry for issue date, that works fine but i need to insert this twice in my sheet layout.

I have no idea how I can insert this element twice and keep both elements SMART ?

I know i can insert my own text. but is there an option where i can copy in some smart equations like in Excel to make these new cells SMART ?

any advice would be super.
Thank you.
Ian

[Anonymous]

i found this interesting article about creating issue sheets but sadly it does not address the question of creating new SMART cells in the table ?

Ian

http://www.aecbytes.com/tipsandtricks/2007/issue15-archicad.html

[Anonymous]

here is what i have got done.
but i am still walking against the problem, HOW DO I CREATE NEW SMART COLUMNS like excel and these clever little equations.

Ian

[Anonymous]

no ideas.
i was curous, could this excell table be hacked from outside the program,with the needed forumals ?

Ian

[Barry Kelly]

Any schedule can be exported as an Excel file and then you can do what you want with it.
But you can't send the information back to the original schedule - purely a one way street.
Although you could save it as a PDF and then link it back in as a drawing.
But updating would not be automatic.
You would need to export the Excel schedule and then re-apply the formulae and then save back as the smae PDF.

Sorry I can't help with your initial problem as I have never had to use drawing issue sheets.

Barry.