Plant Tags unavailable and greyed out

[flowerpower]

Help please. I've been using various versions of vecctorworks VW 2022 and  more recently VW 2023.  My issue is that Im trying to finish a planting plan but I can't use the plant tags - they are all greyed out in the OIP, I'm so frustrated. I can't see what I've done differently. Is this a bug or has my design file corrupted?

 

I've searched around and seen 2 other users asking for help on this a while ago but I have no idea if they resolved it.  I've never had this problem before. I downloaded VW 2024 yesterday in the hope that maybe solve it and it hasn't.  Im starting to think I may have to do all the labels manually.

 

Flora

[Tom W.]

The issue is that these settings are 'By Style' which means that they can only be edited in the Plant Style (the Plant definition) + not by instance (in one of the Plant objects). If you edit the Plant Style you will see that the Tag settings have the bendy arrow icon next to them which means they are only editable there, in the Style. Click on the icon to change it to the pair of sliders + that setting will no longer be greyed-out in the OIP because it is now editable by instance.

[flowerpower]

Hi Tom

Eureka!!! Thanks so much for pitching in to help.
I think I saw you posted this  same fix on the other thread where someone was having similar issues. I tried it then but I don't think I fully understood and changed the Species/data section arrows rather than all the arrows in the Tag section so it didn't work. So I need to do this for all my plants then?

I don't really understand why this was changed from 2022? But it's working so I can now crack on.

 

Thanks again, I'm so relieved.

Flora

[Tom W.]

The other thing to say is that most people I think are tagging their Plants using Data Tags these days rather than the built-in plant tag…

[flowerpower]

Ok. Great thanks for the info. Having had more of a look it seems more flexible now in how you want teh tag to look which is good.