OIP field values

[Joe_Carrick]

OIP field values (even calculated or macro derived) can be displayed in a schedule.  However, I'm not able to use them in other locations (text or macros).  Does anyone know how to extract the values of a schedule row/column or the specific OIP field ?

[ChristianA]

Are you using "referenced" vs "owner" in your script?

[Joe_Carrick]

No, I use the folloowing:

• referenced ? obj =referenced : obj= owner

then all NVPs are per obj.

 

That way my macros always work depending on the context..

Edited June 21 by Joe_Carrick

[SHCanada2]

I use them in macros: custom_fields below.

 isElevationReference is an OIP but these are hand inputted, are you looking for results from a calc/macro within an OIP?

 

 

if custom_fields["isElevationReference"] == "Y"

...

 

 

or are you talking about something else?

Edited Sunday at 04:16 PM by SHCanada2

[Joe_Carrick]

So I have the following in an OIP custom_field named "supported floors"

• ($TotalFloors + owner.floor_number + 1)
• which returns:
  • 1 for the top floor
  • 2 for the next floor down
  • etc.
• those values are displayed correctly in a schedule for the custom_field["supported floors"]

But when I create a user macro for an object and try to get the value of that field it simply returns 

• ($TotalFloors + owner.floor_number + 1)

 

Edited Sunday at 05:26 PM by Joe_Carrick

[SHCanada2]

I thought maybe that's what you were after. I checked mine and I don't have anything like that. I suppose you could assign to a global in or from the oip, but then you are having to spend a bunch of effort managing that , which you are probably trying to avoid in the first place

[Joe_Carrick]

I got it to work.  It was a problem with the data assignment.  I just had to change it to:

• ($TotalFloors - floor_number + 1)
• it seems to be important to have the spaces on either side of the "+" and "-" signs

Edited Monday at 03:01 AM by Joe_Carrick

[SHCanada2]

19 hours ago, Joe_Carrick said:

it seems to be important to have the spaces on either side of the "+" and "-" signs

I've seen this before and I thought I was just going crazy. good to know it was not me.