Matt Overton Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 Is It possible to get a database to only include layers with a certain tag. Say a list of only the sheet titles of sheet layers with a tag of "construction' or "con1", "con2",... if we wanted to shows deadline phases in the set? The Tags set in organisation don't appear to part of Layer or it's own type or record or field value. Seems too obvious for it be a missed feature. 1 Quote Link to comment
Tim Harland Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 I would love this too, I am pretty sure I saw a post last we week wher eit was noted that this isn't possible, but I can't find it again. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 As of VW2022 I do not believe there is a way to use the tag on layers as part of a database criteria. I know you can't do it using the Criteria Builder. You can probably do it using the DatabaseByScript option, but that is a much deeper level of expertise than using the criteria builder. How critical is this to your workflow? Quote Link to comment
Matt Overton Posted November 9, 2021 Author Share Posted November 9, 2021 8 hours ago, Pat Stanford said: As of VW2022 I do not believe there is a way to use the tag on layers as part of a database criteria. I know you can't do it using the Criteria Builder. You can probably do it using the DatabaseByScript option, but that is a much deeper level of expertise than using the criteria builder. How critical is this to your workflow? Well, not critical here found another way. Just don't think I'd ever find another potential use for Layer or Class Tags that wouldn't also require Database filtering. Oddly I can attach my own record to any object and use that why is Tags not just a blessed record. Quote Link to comment
Tim Harland Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 In the end I also just added another field to the titleblock and used it to filter my sheet list - main disadvantage is the potential discrepancy between the visible sheets based on the layer tags and what is listed in the worksheet but it definitely isn’t critical to our workflow. Quote Link to comment
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