Marcelo Posted September 9, 2004 Share Posted September 9, 2004 I am trying to create a new ID Tag and not having much success. I opened ID_Symbols.mcd, created a new symbol, attached a record format to it and linked a text string to the TagText field. I then ran the Output ID prefs script and saved and closed the file. In a new drawing I created an object with the appropriate record format attached. The problem is that the symbol is inserted but the text does not show up. I went back to ID_Symbols.mcd and double-clicked the symbol to edit it and in the edit symbol window the text does not show up. When I exit the symbol the text is back. What am I doing wrong? I've tried multiple times and the same thing happens. Quote Link to comment
hong Posted September 13, 2004 Share Posted September 13, 2004 Check your default text of each field that linked to symbol. Default text is the text shown at the time when you link to a symbol. When you are in edit mode, changing text doesn't mean that you are changine default text. Quote Link to comment
Marcelo Posted September 13, 2004 Author Share Posted September 13, 2004 Thanks for the reply but unfortunately it did not help. The default text is set to one, if I change it in the object info pallete it changes. But this only works in ID_symbols.mcd, as soon as I use the symbol in another file the text disappears. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted September 14, 2004 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted September 14, 2004 You must enter the values you want the symbol text to have in the TagSchema record. Please re-read the section in your manual, "Defining ID Symbol Custom Fields". Quote Link to comment
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