elc Posted January 5, 2023 Share Posted January 5, 2023 hello all, Couldn't find anything on the forum or the Help: I try to list all circuits marked "???" as the signal type in a worksheet. But ? is used as a wild card character. How can I search for it. thanks Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Nikolay Zhelyazkov Posted January 5, 2023 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 5, 2023 Hello @elc, That's an interesting case that you have found. The only way I was able to get this working is by adding this to the criteria formula: ('Circuit'.'Src_Signal'<>'Circuit'.'Dst_Signal') This should usually work because circuits that have different source and destination signal end up with ???. However, there might be some exceptions for manually set signals. Best Regards, Nikolay Zhelyazkov Quote Link to comment
elc Posted January 6, 2023 Author Share Posted January 6, 2023 Hi @Nikolay Zhelyazkov thanks for looking into this. Unfortunatelly it doesn't help much, as I don't work with signal types (Signal is more used to define the cable type and therefor the class formatting). Best, George Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted January 6, 2023 Share Posted January 6, 2023 If the value in Signal is generated by the PIO, then you may be out of luck. If this were a manual field I would recommend using a different character. Maybe ¿ instead so it would be searchable (Option-Shift ? on Mac). I did a quick test yesterday and it is possible to write a script that will change all of the ? in a field to ¿ and then use that for your criteria. And this might be enough if you just need a quick way to show the items with problems, but if the field regenerates after every change it might not be worth it. What about a script to put a value in a different field if Signal contains ??? It would not be fully automatic and you would have to run the script every time to make sure it was up to date, but it might give you the functionality you need. Quote Link to comment
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