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date to update automatically

Pieman

Good Day,

Is there a tag, field or something that can be entered in at the board level that will automatically update to the current date each time the board file is opened?

 We have dates (entered in as just text) on our fabrication title blocks as well as in another location on our assembly drawings.

It would be nice to be able to place a special symbol that would be for current date and would update automatically.

 Inveriably we create films and find that we did not update the date, or the rev level of the board - we are human you know.

 

Any thoughts, suggestions, solutions would be appreciated.

Marvin

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  • Pieman

     Ole,

    I much appreciated your code.  I encountered one strange thing though.  If I have more than one text string that started with "Date:" then the string would add another "Date:" in front of it up to the number of date strings that are on the board.

    I discovered that the "replace_text" variable was being updated with itself, thus the addition of the "Date:" string.

    I corrected these lines of code thus: (note the new variable replace_text_new)

         sprintf(replace_text_new "%s %s" substring(board_textid->text 1 5) replace_text)

         ns_replaceText(board_textid replace_text_new)

     

    Thank you again!

    Marvin.

     

     

     

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  • Pieman

     Ole,

    I much appreciated your code.  I encountered one strange thing though.  If I have more than one text string that started with "Date:" then the string would add another "Date:" in front of it up to the number of date strings that are on the board.

    I discovered that the "replace_text" variable was being updated with itself, thus the addition of the "Date:" string.

    I corrected these lines of code thus: (note the new variable replace_text_new)

         sprintf(replace_text_new "%s %s" substring(board_textid->text 1 5) replace_text)

         ns_replaceText(board_textid replace_text_new)

     

    Thank you again!

    Marvin.

     

     

     

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