[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]

Is it a setting in your email program @Doug McLean ? While I don’t use it on a regular basis when I just tried emailing a page from the thumbnail view the email was created in HMTL format.

We use Outlook for our email. When I checked my mail settings the default is to “Compose messages in this format: HTML”. I switched it to “Plain Text” and tried the same procedure as above and the email was created in “Plain Text”.

See screen shots below for where I found this settings.

[David Cutler]

@Jeff.Collins were you able to find a way to import these comments?

[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…

[David Cutler]

I think @vince what he is asking is can you select multiple cutouts (say window and doors on an elevation view) and then paste that group of cutouts onto another markup. Does this sound correct @robgib0 ?

As a different approach Rob could you copy the markup that has the cutouts already and paste it onto your next markup area? Even if you had to change the properties or perhaps limits of the “new” markup it may be more efficient than cutting out all the areas.

[David Cutler]

That’s a good question @robgib0 , I’ve never thought to try it…

[David Cutler]

Missed the “email template” portion of you question… 🙂 Not sure how to change that…