AutoText not working

[Laura Yanoviak]

Instead of the following:

1560 Broadway, Denver CO 80202

This string is displayed in all Master Layouts:

<STREET>, <CITY> <COUNTRY> <CODE>

We've never had this problem before, but now it is consistently happening on different machines and all new PM files. I've tried deleting/retyping the necessary text into the Layout Book Info box. I even cut/paste this text string from a "working" PM file into a new file, but still no luck. All other AutoText entities are working fine.

In a hurry, no time to post screen shot -- any ideas? LJY

[Aaron Bourgoin]

Does the code not require something to say where this data is coming from?

Look at the Autotext codes inserted on a section marker in ArchiCAD - They start with PmA. Try that and you should get what you want.

[David Maudlin]

Laura wrote:
Instead of the following:

1560 Broadway, Denver CO 80202

This string is displayed in all Master Layouts:

<STREET>, <CITY> <COUNTRY> <CODE>

In a hurry, no time to post screen shot -- any ideas? LJY

Laura:

Has this information been filled in under Book>Book Info... ? Just a guess.

David

[Laura Yanoviak]

David wrote:
Has this information been filled in under Book>Book Info... ? Just a guess.

Yes it has.

Well... came in this morning and now all is as it should be (I had tried a cold reboot yesterday as part of my attempts to remedy the situation, and this too did not help). All I have gleamed from this is it had something to do with more than one AutoText entity in a single line of text. Thanks for the help, LJY.

[TomWaltz]

Aaron wrote:
Does the code not require something to say where this data is coming from?

Look at the Autotext codes inserted on a section marker in ArchiCAD - They start with PmA. Try that and you should get what you want.

The autotext codes in section and detail markers are fake. They have no actual bearing on what Plotmaker does. I abbreviated our custom markers to <DR> and <SHT> so they did not look so obnoxious.

Thanks to Mr Lohden for that little trivia....

[Anonymous]

I have a similar problem where the Autotext label is not displaying the object ID. It worked fine previously on the same project.

[Laszlo Nagy]

I suspect that the Label was not placed with the "Associative" Geometry Method, so it is a static Label.
However, you can select any static Label and CTRL-click on any element and the Label will become associated to that Element, and display the Element ID properly.

[Anonymous]

Worked like a charm, thank you very much.