Plan Macros in Layout File

[chrismac]

How do I setup a Macro in .plan file and get that same macro to display in Layout file? (Plan linked to Layout) I tried doing %plan.macroname% in Rich Text in Layout, but it's not working.

[Joe_Carrick]

Open the macro in the plan file using TMM.

Highlight the text and use Ctrl_C to copy

Go to the Layout file and open TMM

Create a new macro

  Name it the same as the plan macro

   Past the contents and save

 

No guarantee that it will work unless it's non-evaluate since very few objects in Layout will have the same NVPs as the objects in Plan.

[JiAngelo]

Send to layout a view of the macro working as intended in the plan file and place that where you want it to show on the layout pages

[SHCanada2]

6 hours ago, chrismac said:

How do I setup a Macro in .plan file and get that same macro to display in Layout file? (Plan linked to Layout) I tried doing %plan.macroname% in Rich Text in Layout, but it's not working.

you cannot.

 

You can copy the macro from the plan and recreate in layout(per Joe), if the underlying logic and data are available in the layout (not many data are). Or do as john indicates, assuming, the macro displays to a text box or schedule, or something that can be seen.  For instance, I have a macro that calculates the total living areas of all floors. It shows in a rich text box in my plan, off to the side. I then have just this little text box showing  in my layout on the first page, as I have cropped the first floor plan sent to layout to just show this text box

[Renerabbitt]

3 hours ago, SHCanada2 said:

you cannot

Not entirely true 

[SHCanada2]

9 hours ago, Renerabbitt said:

Not entirely true 

you are correct, I will say ...not straight forwardly done...there are a bunch of ways to do it, none of them as straightforward as the OP requested