Thumbnails in Record formats and worksheets in Landmark

[hollister design Studio]

Couple of record format/worksheet questions:

 

a.  I there a way to include a thumbnail image in a record format or a worksheet?

b.  How do I add a 'Count' column to my worksheet?

 

Starting with a.

I'm working up my first Landscape Lighting sheet and converting my process from AutoCAD to VW.

 

I like to include an image of the symbol in the lighting schedule.

In Acad this is not possible, so I  created a "blank" field in my symbols so when I generated my worksheets there would be a header for the column named 'SYMBOL' and I could manually place a symbol over the worksheet.

 

I've got his record format started:

 

It doesn't seem like any of the 'type' options will lead me to inserting a symbol - is this possible in the worksheet setup?

(...am I wrong that Plant schedules allow symbol thumbnails? new to this VW world...)

 

If there isn't an 'automatic' answer here, can I proceed with the above record format will it make for a column  with the header " SYMBOL" that I can manually overlay a symbol?

 

 

As for question b.

if this isn't a straight forward answer, does anyone know of a good tutorial? I didn't find one in the VECTORWORKS UNIVERSITY.

 

[Pat Stanford]

The function to include the image of an object is =Image

 

It will create an image using the class visibilities active when the worksheet is recalculated. There are a number of options about how it displays in the Format menu of the worksheet.

 

=Count will return the number of objects that are SUMmarized in a database row.