Title box and custom properties / shape data

[nepheron]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to create a stencil for our office that has the typical
shapes we use. In doing this I wanted to create a title box that could
be dropped on the page and prompt the user for details such as title
of the drawing, revision number etc.

So I created a title box with all of the sections and borders and was
trying to get shape data dialogue box to prompt the user for the
details. Despite using the "ask on drop" check box the dialogue box is
not opening as I drop the shape onto the sheet.

Has anyone else tried this before or know of examples I can use to
guide me? Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Al Edlund]

I suspect that you have grouped all of the shapes together as a single group
and now would like the individual subshapes to fire off on the 'ask on
drop'. I'd suggest that one approach might be to put those properties into
the group shape, since the 'ask on drop' of the subshapes is now hindered by
the 'groups' actions.
al

 

[blogs123]

Hi Al,

Thanks for the response. I had tried your approach earlier, however because
these properties are unique to the group shape they are therefore not
available to be inserted into a text field within an individual shape.

Any further suggestions?

Many thanks.

 

[nepheron]

I've found the answer to my question. I worked out that you can reference the
group shape's "shape data" by inserting a field with the following syntax:

=Sheet.10!Prop.Row_1

Works a treat!.

Thanks.