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Just when I thought I had it all figured out!
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Just when I thought I had it all figured out!
I was introduced to a new way of displaying custom data on a markup at the Bluebeam Live! event in New York last week.
In Revu 21.3 (and going forward) you can code the “label” value to display the information from any column contained in your markups list. This is relatively simple! All you have to do is enter “<<” into the label field and you will be shown a dropdown list of all the column names that you can choose from. (You may have to backspace and then re-enter the 2nd “<” to get it to populate). You can choose 1 column, multiple columns, even add text before/after the column! Possibly the most flexible value associated with a markup.
I thought for sure that I was going to be able to build out any number of custom columns to provide the information that I need for my estimate and then code the “label” column to display my calculated value in one consistent column for every markup. <i style=”background-color: var(–bb-content-background-color); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: var(–bb-body-text-color);”>Unfortunately, this isn’t quite the case.
I can get the custom value to show on the markup on the PDF, but in the markups list the “label” displayed is the formula, not the value… When I export the markups list the “<<Tons>>” string shows in the “label” column, not the value.
Where this might still work is that the “label” that is displayed shows in the “comments” column, which does show in the markups list export… The next challenge is that anything that is displayed as the “label” on the markup shows in the comments column so this limits what I can show on my marked up PDF in order to get what I want out of the markups list…
Guess I need to go back to Bluebeam and start lobbying for tool specific formulas…
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Points: 15,212Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Blue Belt
I’ve complained about this. Even had this shown on the MCR.
Bluebeam, for some reason, can’t seem to replicate this on their computers so its not a problem in their eyes.
It’s kind of a sore spot for me tbh-
Points: 26,754Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt
I got frustrated and stopped messing with it last night. Most of my tools don’t “need” this to work as I can work with the standard “quantity” column. I could also build out a series of factor columns if I wanted to that would get everything into the right units. Just need to find the time to invest… 🙂
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Points: 23,739Rank: UC2 Brainery Brown Belt III
Unfortunately, the same issue occurs with those custom labels in a Legend. Like everything else, there are great tools, but they have rules and limitations. I created some successful custom labels for a presentation at a steel detailing conference in September.
On a side note, I think this feature was added several updates ago, but the dropdown menu you mentioned must be new in this latest release, I haven’t updated yet.
Thanks for the post @DavidCutler
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