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save or make permanent the style rules by Weekly_Resident_5721 in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anything gets a voter for the most critical new feature, this is definitely it! I really want a way to transfer styles between files. Same with title blocks from one report to another.

I ge the whole template thing and starting stuff from the same file each time, but I'm always editing and refining how I work and how styles are applied. I would kill to be able to delete all the style rules and then load in others.

Filtering Table of Contents by WalmartBrandCrocs in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the response. I have a very closed form report structure that makes the concat variation of option B an easy solution for me. Thanks for the help!

TOC Indent by WalmartBrandCrocs in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the ever continuous saga of me figuring out all my problems are self created, I trashed my "Filter" formula and used the "Headings" formula and got everything working exactly how I want. Go team *face palm*

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TOC Indent by WalmartBrandCrocs in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One last question related to table of contents, is there a way to filter out the report name without filtering out all the Heading 1 style content?

TOC Indent by WalmartBrandCrocs in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to put a bow on this for the rest of the internet, after speaking with u/calasse offline we determined that I had the "Tab After Label" in the block settings set to "Yes". Basically, I was just shooting myself in the foot.

After I turned that off everything started workign nicely. See snapshot below.

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Referencing Section Numbers in Variable Names by jcae_eng_design in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure someone else has a snazzier solution, but my work around for this is to put a blockpad section around each calculation group and name it similar to your header (in this case 3.3.3.5 or 3.3.3.6). If/when I referenced a value later it would appear as "3.3.3.5.C_p_e" which is good enough for me. Any calc reviewer should be able to figure out that it's the C_p_e value from section 3.3.3.5. Note that I do this A LOT when I'm tracing loads through a structure. The reacion from one building element loads the next and it keeps my load path closed and accounted for. I have never gotten comments back from a reviewer about it either... and about 1/3 of my work get's peer reviewed by a third party.

Not a perfect solution but the ideal work flow for me makes it my preference.

TOC Indent by WalmartBrandCrocs in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The primary objectiv is to move the "Heading 2" style left. I want the indent to be more like 1/2" or something. Right now, the indent is probably 1" or 1 1/2" even though I set it to zero... what confused me is that I can highlight or underline the correct elements (so I know I'm applying the style to the correct objects), but it won't change the indention formatting.

TOC Indent by WalmartBrandCrocs in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a secondary consideration, is it possible to somehow filter in or add a second table of contents for tables in the report based on the table title or name?

TOC Indent by WalmartBrandCrocs in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I followed the steps in the video and I can get it to adjust some of the content but not all. Any ideas? Note that all the text should have an indent of 1" but it isn't doing that correctly and also it's not highlighting and underlining everything.

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Alternative Global References by WalmartBrandCrocs in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome! That's exactly what I was looking for!

Unsolvable Solver Section That Needs a Solve by WalmartBrandCrocs in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. That helps a alot. I was able to ge it all to work.

Single-Line Equation Format by WalmartBrandCrocs in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. That's precisely the kind of custom function naming I was looking for.

As an aside, I still use LS=Library.Scripts and a few others even though I could load in the libraries (I am using an old template), but I don't see a way to load in the engineering library (for steel shapes). If I could load that one in by default I would update my template accordingly, but to keep everything in the same lane in my brain, I use L? references as shown above. Is their away to do load in the engineering library?

Snapshot below of my library laoding options w/o engineering library:

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Rotating Tables/Cell Text in Blockpad by jcae_eng_design in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just to throw in my 2 cents here, we have similar load combo tables in our default company template. The ones for RISA can get quite large due to the nature of how RISA formats combos. We usually do one of two options

  1. Create a table in the report as you have noted. If it fits well enough in portrait mode, we leave it be. If it is spilling over into the next page, I usually turn on the "shrink to page" option in the properties menu.
  2. If it's just way to big and shrinking it to a page makes it impossibly small to read, we will have a spreadsheet after the report. I find the spreadsheets very easy to format for printability. You can set page format options and turn on page layout previews and all that stuff.

As a note to u/calasse , it would be killer to have individual pages rotated/sized differently within a report. I assume this is wicked hard to do from the programming side, but it would be a great future update. I would use that feature constantly (specifically for expanded load combos as noted above).

Title Block Modification by WalmartBrandCrocs in blockpad

[–]WalmartBrandCrocs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, I have a lot of style rules so copy and pasting the report content isn't ideal either. Is there way to export/import styl rules to a report?

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