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toonau69

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howdy,

i want to add more colums to the supplied plant lists

i understand that you set the parameters in the header part of the table but for some reason i seem to be getting things wrong

Specifically i want to display the Appearance Height and Spread from the Define Plant dialog in the plant list.

What I keep getting is:

1. The Spread value shown on the Set Plant Tool Options (ass oppossed to the Spread shown on the Define Plant dialog) multiplied by the plant quantity.

2. The Appearance Height value shown on the Define Plant dialog multiplied by the plant quantity.

My header values must be incorrectly defined.

Maybe my approach is all wrong!

thankyou

-toonie austy

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  • Vectorworks, Inc Employee

This is an issue regarding what is called "summarizing database rows" in your worksheet. Briefly put, you need to summarize the columns for Height and Spread so they give you individual values and not totals.

What you will do is this:

1. Click in your opened schedule worksheet to the left of your plant entries. You should select the entire block of plant entries and enable the little "icons" at the top of the worksheet window.

2. You will also see that your database rows are summarized and sorted by some of their columns. You will see this by seeing copies of the little "sort and summarize" icons in the column headers of the worksheet. You can drag these icons out of the column headers to un-summarize your worksheet. Do this.

3. Now you see the raw, unsummarized data. Drag a "summarize" icon back into your plant ID column header, and one each into your Spread and Height column headers. You should now see individual values instead of sums.

For more information on these worksheet tools, look up the topic "Worksheet Commands" in your on-line help which has a more complete discussion.

HTH

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thanks,

you wouldnt beleive how long i spent looking through the help and playing arounf with VW.

How about the other issue regarding the Spread value?

I am expecting the value on the Define Plant dialog to be displayed but get the Spread that is displayed on the Set Plant Tool Options.

Select the Plant Settings button and the Spread that is displayed in the Set Default Plant Tool Options dialog is the one populated in the worksheet.

FYI the header used is:

='plant record'.spread

The end game for me is to show a worksheet with the spread and height from the Define Plant dialog.

and ideally i would prefer to show the height and spread ranges from the Plant Reference DB (cant seem to work out the header value for that one)

thanks again for your help

toonie

[ 12-22-2004, 05:53 AM: Message edited by: toonau69 ]

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