X17 unable to handle Text Macros, it would seem? (I'm trying to automate the filling out of forms)

[Michael_Gia]

If you do "extensive" work in text macro management then X17 will blow up and randomly delete and/or be unable to save. (see below, not that extensive, but obviously too much for X17)

 

Even with a file that I had worked on and saved multiple times in X17, it decided to flash the warning, "if you save this file in X17 then you will not be able to open the file in older versions"

 

When I saw that, I clicked continue only to get the message pop again and again.

 

I decided to quite since I had been saving multiple times as I went and I knew there couldn't be much info missing.

 

When I reopened the file all the text macros that I had used throughout the form I was working on vanished.

 

The Marco list was still in Text Macro Management, although with info from a much earlier version.

 

It even went into the archives for X17 and overwrote prior backups, it seems.  Because I tried to at least restore the Text Macro List from an earlier version that was more complete and it wasn't.

 

I'm ready to put my fist through the monitor.

 

Is this a bug in X17?

 

I've never used text macros extensively only a few here and there.

 

Have Text Macros always been wonky and you all have chosen to keep it a secret?

 

 

 

[tundra_dweller]

@Michael_Gia Just out of curiosity are you using X17 in project management mode or legacy mode?

[Renerabbitt]

1 hour ago, Michael_Gia said:

Is this a bug in X17?

 

need a lot more info. Nothing like that has ever happened. Compatability warnings usually means that you have opened a file that was done in a previous version(including patch updates)
Export your macros or share your plan so we can see what you are referring to. Many of us have far more complicated macro systems than this

[SHCanada2]

2 hours ago, Michael_Gia said:

Have Text Macros always been wonky and you all have chosen to keep it a secret?

I use them all the time for my details. I have no issue like the one you describe, where the contents were there and then they mysteriously vanish

[Joe_Carrick]

The only way I have ever seen such a thing was when I inadvertently opened a plan from a prior version and then edited some macros.

• Then when I went ot save the plan I got that message.
• If I didn't save the plan
  • The macro changes were not saved
  • Simply because macros are specific to the planBacking 

Exporting macros (esentially a backup) and then importing into another plan is the only logical way to insure they are current in each plan.

[Michael_Gia]

9 hours ago, tundra_dweller said:

@Michael_Gia Just out of curiosity are you using X17 in project management mode or legacy mode?

Legacy mode. 

[Michael_Gia]

3 hours ago, Joe_Carrick said:

Exporting macros (esentially a backup) and then importing into another plan is the only logical way to insure they are current in each plan.

That’s a good tip. 
 

didn’t know we could export macros. 

[Alaskan_Son]

19 hours ago, Michael_Gia said:

If you do "extensive" work in text macro management then X17 will blow up and randomly delete and/or be unable to save. (see below, not that extensive, but obviously too much for X17)

 

Even with a file that I had worked on and saved multiple times in X17, it decided to flash the warning, "if you save this file in X17 then you will not be able to open the file in older versions"

 

When I saw that, I clicked continue only to get the message pop again and again.

 

I decided to quite since I had been saving multiple times as I went and I knew there couldn't be much info missing.

 

When I reopened the file all the text macros that I had used throughout the form I was working on vanished.

 

The Marco list was still in Text Macro Management, although with info from a much earlier version.

 

It even went into the archives for X17 and overwrote prior backups, it seems.  Because I tried to at least restore the Text Macro List from an earlier version that was more complete and it wasn't.

 

I'm ready to put my fist through the monitor.

 

Is this a bug in X17?

 

I've never used text macros extensively only a few here and there.

 

Have Text Macros always been wonky and you all have chosen to keep it a secret?

 

 

 

 

Never seen anything like what you're describing.  The only thing that comes to mind is that it sounds like you may be inadvertently working with multiple plan files.