Insert Data Table

Command: Insert Data Rable
Menu path: Layouts > Insert Data Table
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Functional description: This command inserts a data table into the selected layout or replaces existing data table (or header).
 


Insert Data Table command inserts a data table into the selected layout.
If there already is a data table or a header in the layout they will be replaced by the new data table.
To add the data table, the layout needs to have a page with a frame.


Procedure

Before running the command you need to open the layout in which you wish to add (or change) the data table.

Then, from the main menu run Layouts > Insert Data Table.

If the data table is added to the layout with no header or data chart, Create Data Table  window opens (Figure 1). If the data table is added to the layout which already has a data table (or header) then Change Header Data window opens.

Both windows contain same entry fields (therefore the procedure is the same), the difference being that Create Data Table window is initially filled with higher level data as described in „Forward layout table data” section on this page, and Edit Table Data window is initially filled with data from the data table (or header) already prezent in the layout.

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Figure 1

The window contains the following items:

Drawing data:

  • Drawing Name - (User enters the drawing name or selects it from the drop-down list)
  • Drawing Number - (User enters the number of the drawing)
  • Drawing Scale - (User selects the scale from the drop-down list)

Project participants:

  • Name and surname of the chief designer - (User accepts the offered input or enters the name and surname)
  • Name and surname of the designer - (User accepts the offered input or enters the name and surname)
  • Name and surname of the draftsman - (User accepts the offered input or enters the name and surname)

Project data:

  • Object Name - (User accepts the offered input or enters the object name)
  • Project Number - (User enters the object number) 
  • Date - (User accepts the offered date or enters the date (offered is current month))

*   *   *

Depending on whether there’s already a data table (or header) in the layout,
Create button or Modify button will be displayed in the bottom of the window.

Click on Create (Modify) to create a new data table (Figure 2),
in accordance with the data entered in Create Data Table window (or Edit Header Data window).

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Figure 2


Forward layout table data

The data used for data table fields can be entered at different levels:

  1. At the level of system settings
  2. At the project level
  3. Immediately prior to the creation of data table
  4. Directly in the data table on the layout

The highest level is the level of system settings.

Regardless of the data entry level, they are forwarded to the next level
and at that point the user decides whether to accept the forwarded data or manually change them.
If you change the data, then those new data will be forwarded to the next level
until the data table itself is eventually filled in.

(The data used in the example are arbitrary and the only goal is to show how they are forwarded from one level to another.)


1. The level of system settings

Data entered at the level of system settings are used when creating each new project.

These data are entered in
System Settings window,  its
General Settings - Projects section (Figure 3).

The window is opened by running
Projects > Settings > System Settings command.

 

Data forwarded further, which will eventually be found in the data table, are:

  • Chief Designer: Chief Designer name
  • Designer: Designer name
  • Drawn by: Draftsman name

 

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Figure 3

 


2. Project level

When creating a new project
Create New Project window on Project and Participants tabs, contains some fields filled in with data forwarded from system settings (red) and some that should be completed on the spot.

Input fields that are forwarded to the data table are given here.

Entry fields in Project tab are:

  • Official name: "Test Official Name"
    (forwarded to the field "Object Name" in     Create Data Table window)
  • Date:  07-12 (offered is current month)

Entry fields in Participants tab are:

  • Chief Designer: Chief Designer name
  • Designer: Designer name
  • Drawn by: Draftsman name

 

These data will be forwarded to the next level. If we change data in some fields, then they will be forwarded in that changed form.

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Figure 4

 


3. Immediately prior to the creation of data chart

When, after running Layouts > Insert Table Data command, Create Data Table window opens, you need to enter data in that window that will eventually be displayed in the data table itself.
Some of the data are forwarded from the previous level (red), and other are entered on the spot.

  • Drawing Name: Drawing Name 1
  • Drawing Number: 1
  • Drawing Scale: 1: 1000
  • Name and surname of the chief designer:
    Chief Designer name
  • Name and surname of the chief designer: Designer name
  • Name and surname of the draftsman: Draftsman name
  • Object Name: Test Official Name
    (forwarded from “Official name” field)
  • Project number: 88
  • Date: 07-12 (offered is current month)

 

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Figure 5
 

Data table will be filled with data entered in the Create Data Table window (level 3).

If the user wishes to modify these data, this can be done in two ways:

  • Directly in the data table (level 4)
  • By re-running Layouts > Data Chart command  (as previously described)

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Figure 6

 


4. Directly in the data chart

 

Data can be modified directly in the data table by marking the table in the layout and then opening the Properties window.
In the Properties window, change the value of attributes for the corresponding data table fields (Figures 6 and 7).

 

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Figure 7