[Isaac Harned]

Sorry for the delay, I seem to be creating a mountain of volunteer projects 😬.

Long story short, there is a customizable PDF form that I am creating (discussion is here: https://uchapter2.com/brainery/javascript/forum/topic/isaac-harned-here-for-forms-with-javascript/#post-135307), but not everyone in the office enjoys entering data on the PDF, which is understandable with the loss of keyboard flexibility. Once it’s in the field it is actually much more workable on ipad. As an option for the office, I am basically creating an input form.

[Isaac Harned]

Personally, for none other than comfort and accuracy, I love the Logi ergonomic (K860 keyboard, MX master 3S combo set). Both are Bluetooth capable and can switch between three devices. Mouse has a free spin wheel, so you can scroll through those long construction docs fast. Also has a side scroll wheel for a little more customization, couple extra buttons that can be customized for specific apps through the logi control panel. Keyboard clicks are smooth and quiet, yet have a solid almost mechanical click. Both are the most comfortable I have used yet, especially if you are at the station the entire work day.

[Isaac Harned]

Form is 100% working, not crashing, and is fast as all get out.

Attached is the working file, all code is placed inside of each dropdown.

Still a little confused on how the layers turn off their print setting, but the issue there is probably not code related.

Can’t thank you enough @lizlarsen , let me know what you think of the modifications I made for the individual dropdown code!

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[Isaac Harned]

Thank you Liz, this has been the bane of my last couple of days!

[Isaac Harned]

Mr. Young coming in clutch!

Thank you @mitchyoungs will try this out. I don’t know why I did not try this myself 😅

[Isaac Harned]

I will have to look into this, may be a few days though.

[Isaac Harned]

Workflow could be to only allow those toolsets to be visible in the main working profile, then have a field profile to distribute with those tools not visible. I’m sure that’s already your workaround, but the best idea I had.

[Isaac Harned]

Agreed this is the best option, just comes with one little caveat:

When exporting to a network location, Tool sets will be Locked, meaning that to make any changes to the set, user will basically have to unlock or check out the toolset. This can be annoying if you have a base set of tools that needs to change in minor ways along the process.

In our situation, our markups involve alot of visual properties that might need to be changed as we go through highlighting ductwork (i.e. colors that don’t mesh well together or are harder to see through when ductwork overlaps). Our process was originally to store the toolsets on the network, but I would see little random tools added to my chest, or little properties modified in my base tools. It would be great if we could assign permissions to them, but unfortunately, anyone you give access to will be able to unlock it.

What I do now is an export to local storage with dependencies into a folder. Then I manually move the folder to a shared location (it was not exported to the network location directly, so it will not have the lock). When setting up a new system, my training dashboard will instruct users how to manually copy that folder into their “AppData\Roaming\Bluebeam Software\Revu” \version folder, then they can open revu, import the profile, which will come with the tool chests. If a user wants to replace the toolset with the original, the folder will remain in the app data folder and can be dragged from the imported folder to the main “Revu/(version)” folder, and if there is an update to the Master file on the network, that toolset can be dragged directly to replace the same toolset. This eliminates the multistep re-import as long as they are named exactly the same.

[Isaac Harned]

Liz let me know that since this is not a pre-constructed regex, and the part being built to look for a digit is in quotations, JavaScript sees this as an escape character. In order to keep the expression intact, a second backslash was added to the digit search.

[Isaac Harned]

The solution to this was simply the page size. 11 x 17 does not give the font enough of a lower size range to adjust. I had to tell Bluebeam support why this was happening, and that their text boxes DO adjust vertically AND horizontally. 36 x 24 works just fine.

🙄

[Isaac Harned]

Thank you Liz, super helpful!!!!!!

[Isaac Harned]

Also the line:

let childMask = new RegExp(“^” + tap + “-[\\d]{1,2}$”);

when I plug this into regex101, I get some weird search parameters. Never worked with the RegEx constructor, so please bear with me here =)

So if the previous tap variable only stores the number at the end of the string (Let’s say NumberOfTaps1), then this would be constructed as such:

/^1-[\\d]{1,2}$/

The part that is tripping me up is the double slashes I think, what does this do to the digit search?

[Isaac Harned]

So in the local code, the line:

var tap = dropDownName.match(/\d{1,2}$/)

Does this only store what is matched? I.e. it looks at NumberOfTaps1, and only stores the “1” since it matches the search for 1 or 2 digits at the end of the string?

[Isaac Harned]

Oh my goodness Liz, you are amazing. It works for sure!!

I am still having the issue of the print setting for the layer toggling off and not back on, will test some more with that.

I am going to work today to modify all the individual dropdowns so that expressions can be applied to all, but this is so fantastic!!

Couple of small questions on the code:

1. The regex variable tapsMask, is this to filter out all layers that are not associated with the terminal and tap dropdowns (i.e. RACH layers)?

2. The double vertical bars, is this an OR statement? Seems like you are testing either the full fname OR the substring prior to the dash.

I have attached a screenshot of the code with some detailed notes for anyone hoping to follow along, please feel free to correct me @lizlarsen if I misinterpret anything! The file below is the latest with the new code loaded into dropdown. Sub dropdowns have not been 100% coded yet, but check out how fast this file moves now!!!

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//NumberOfTerminals local code let drop = this.getField("NumberOfTerminals").value; //Tests for 1 or 2 digits at the beginning of the string, then looks for the end of the string, children will fail this test let parentMask = /^[\d]{1,2}$/; //Tests for 1 or 2 digits at the beginning of the string, then looks for a dash, then 1 or 2 digits, then the end let childMask = /^[\d]{1,2}-[\d]{1,2}$/; //Tests for 1 or 2 digits at the beginning of the string, then possibly (allowed to fail) a dash and 1 or 2 digits, then the end let tapsMask = /^\d{1,2}(-\d{1,2})?$/; //Creates an array of all layer names let layerList = this.getOCGs(); //this loop will cycle through each layer name and perform the following for each for (let i = 0; i drop || fname.substring(0, fname.indexOf("-")) > drop)) { //if match, turn off layer layerList[i].state = false; layerList[i].initstate = false; //If parent fails the previous, and is NOT greater than } else if (parentMask.test(fname)) { //Turn it on layerList[i].state = true; layerList[i].initstate = true; //if it fails all previous and is a child layer, this works because all parent and children greater than the main are already off } else if (childMask.test(fname)) { //All the children whos group is equal or less than dropdown are going to pass what group they belong to var currentTap = fname.substring(0, fname.indexOf("-")); //Uses group name to grab the value of the associated dropdown, compares the substring after the dash. If the sub is greater than if (fname.substring(fname.indexOf("-") + 1) > this.getField("NumberOfTaps" + currentTap).value) { //Turn it off layerList[i].state = false; layerList[i].initstate = false; //otherwise, turn on } else { layerList[i].state = true; layerList[i].initstate = true; } } }

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[Isaac Harned]

Here is the latest file with the dropdown coded, sorry for not getting this in earlier

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