[David Cutler]

Again @ChrisRiley I’m not a Sessions user. Commenting to engage @Roye and @Doug McLean …

[David Cutler]

Interesting question @ChrisRiley – I don’t use Sessions so I’m not of any use here. Perhaps @Roye or @Doug McLean can educate us all on this…

[David Cutler]

I’d be pleasantly surprised to hear that the newer version corrects this for you… 🤣

I haven’t worked with drop down selections so unfortunately I’m no immediate help on this one…

[David Cutler]

Seems as if I remember discussing exporting form data during a MCR session. I’ll see if I jotted anything down in my notes….

[David Cutler]

Have you tried “Merging” the data @Vince ?

Jason Artley emailed me a follow up to the “Forms” MCR back in June (Thank you Jason!). In his words “Exporting Data is intended for one form at a time…” “Merging Data will allow you to combine all of the data from different forms into a single CSV or XML file. These fields do not need to be open to do this, so this is a super-fast way to consolidate that data.”

Perhaps this will help?

[David Cutler]

I guess you could apply the group as a markup and then “ungroup” it prior to exporting to the CSV…

Unless perhaps there is a setting that expands grouped markups when exporting….

Maybe a Javascript routine to “Ungroup all groups”?

Maybe a candidate for a future feature?

Another work around idea would be to setup a “template” file that has all of the text boxes that you are looking to use repeatedly, arranged as you like. You could then select all, copy the selection and then paste that “collection” as needed into your document. Not a clean as having them as one single custom tool, but it would save you ungrouping dozens of grouped markups.

[David Cutler]

That’s a good question @lizlarsen

I typically work in a single, multi-page pdf file so all of my markups are extracted into a single .CSV file.

I’m not sure how this would work with a drawing set.

If he is working in single sheets he could always merge them together before extracting his info.

So many options!

[David Cutler]

Could you gather the information in a series text boxes that were grouped and saved as a custom “tool” @Vince ? Text box information would show in the markups list and include the space assignment.

[David Cutler]

Could you use Power Query to bring the data sets from your forms and your markup list together?

[David Cutler]

Love it when we find new uses for tools @Vince !

[David Cutler]

Using the Typewriter today I identified another Bonus Tip @Vince !

Similar to most tools in review the Typewriter is customizable – you can change font size, color, font (as noted by @troy-degroot ) background color, outline box color, etc. Once you use the tool it shows in your “recent tools” with your adjusted attributes. You can then re-use the tool with all of those settings over and over again without changing your default settings.

For a double extra bonus tip you can save the customized Typewriter as a custom tool in your toolbox.

For a triple extra bonus tip drag the customized typewriter up into your “My Tools” toolbox and establish a keyboard shortcut to activate the tool!

This could get interesting… 😎

[David Cutler]

That’s a great idea to have on the “intro to Revu” list @Doug McLean ! We have someone who just started in our accounts payable team that I’ll have to show the tool to…

[David Cutler]

It’s all about saving clicks @lizlarsen !

[David Cutler]

Interested to see how you are using this @Vince – specifically how you tie the typewritten (or text box) information to a specific piece of work.

[David Cutler]

Like most tools @troy-degroot the Typewriter isn’t perfect. If you need to stay in a certain area you need to press enter at the end of the line (just like a typewriter without the “ding”) where if you were using a text box it would auto return at the limits of the box. At the same time the Typewriter doesn’t have an outline as a default so you don’t need to reformat the text box to hide the line to keep things clean…