SHCanada2 Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Earlier this year I could not get the current plan's filename, joe had posted a suggestion a couple years ago, which I added my request to as well today I was playing around with material lists and came across a method to get the current plan filename and/or path into a global variable. I would like to know if anyone has tried it(or another method) and had success or not. Essentially you do four things for this method: 1. in the OIP put in %file.dir% into one of the fields, I used "manufacturer" 2. in the components tab, pick a field, lets say "manufacturer" as well, and put in =manufacturer 3. in another field on the components tab, lets say, "comments" put in a macro lets say named "=macros.setpathname" and have it use "apply formula to line item" 4. in the macro setpathname put in $file1=manufacturer I think the reason it works is that the file.dir gets converted to a string once the materials list applies the macro in the formula Couple caveats, in order to get it to update, you have to do one of two things that i have found so far: 1. go into the components tab and click on the field where the macro is specified. It will fire the macro once you leave the field 2. generate a materials list so of course the problem is once it runs, the value is only in the global variable and does not actually get stored as text somewhere in the plan where it would be static until the next time it runs. This means everytime you open the file in CA, the textbox containing your plan info is blank (because the global variable has not been set). it is static in the materials list,, but I'm not sure how to get it out of there any ideas on either how to store data from a global variable in a plan file such that it does not get updated if the global variable is not set? or some other method to get the materials list to fire automagically ? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 I have a system for accessing and parsing that data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHCanada2 Posted November 19, 2021 Author Share Posted November 19, 2021 I did stumble upon doing this while experimenting: in a polyline label: %$file88="%file.dir%"% it seems to set the global variable $file88 with the filename directory. In another another macro I have (in another polyline label), it uses $file88 to read in some stuff in a file, such as customer address.. Testing by issuing a "save as" to another directory looks to update the contents of the file in another directory. so I looks to be working. I assume it could work for other CA internal macros. I think you could then in theory use one polyline label with: %$filedir="%file.dir%"% %$filename="%file%"% ..... and then use the global variables as you please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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