bcd Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Is this normal? A Worksheet Criterion cannot be set to report objects by Record Format if those objects are not in the current drawing but are in a drawing that's being Referenced Viewport. This is very limiting especially as its often those objects which have Records attached that are the more count-worthy. http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=6756&filename=Referened%20Records%20missing.png (Chris?) Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Interesting... It works for parametric objects - just tried it with Spaces objects. But not with user created record formats. It can pick out the symbols, but it can't call the data. very unfortunate mk Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 (edited) Thanks for checking Michael - Now I'm wondering if I can call it a bug & have it resolved. It's an unnecessary functionality limitation. So - as an alternative I'll give a locus a Name in the Data tab and bring that in via my Reference Viewport. Now the problem is NNA#1 prepends every Name. How can I avoid this or what's the command (opposite of Concatenate) to remove it. Thanks & thanks. How to Trim this? Edited March 7, 2012 by bcd Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 from Tech Support: This hinderance is known and the functionality will be added in the future (sp or release) Quote Link to comment
Farookey Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 I know this is an old post, but the custom record formats still do not seem to show up in references to extract data. The parametric objects work ok, but not the user created records. Will this be fixed, or am I missing something? Quote Link to comment
Avideh Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 (edited) experiencing the same limitation still, even with VW2014 release. When is this feature getting added on? Edited August 19, 2014 by Avideh Quote Link to comment
Bob Holtzmann Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 Just an idea - I don't know if this will help. Perhaps if you go to the Resource Browser, and double click the Record Format in the referenced file, to make a new copy of the Record Format resource for the file in which you're making the report. Then perhaps the file can use the Record Format in the report. Again, I don't know if this will work. Quote Link to comment
Seth Thomas Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 I'm working with VW 2016 SP4 and experiencing the same problem. I'm incredibly bummed as it makes me have to redo my binder structure in a less than ideal way. I see this was originally posted back in 2012, with a promise for Tech Support to fix, so Vectorworks must not be taking this one seriously. 1 Quote Link to comment
thinkingpencil Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 I think I am experiencing the same issue, trying to pull information into a worksheet by a criterion which is part of a record format. The record format is attached to my target objects in a file referenced into the worksheet file through a design layer referenced viewport. But then, my worksheet can't see the objects when criteria are set by class, layer.... Quote Link to comment
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