Synchronize Using Configuration Settings

Synchronizing multiple title blocks using configuration settings is most useful when you don’t need to automate how the multiple title block attribute values are set or your requirements are not complex.

To synchronize multiple title blocks per drawing using configuration settings:

1. Enable the Synchronize the title blocks in all layouts option described in Configure Title Block Updates.
2. In Configurator, expand Environment in the configuration tree and select Application Link Settings. The settings for each application link appear in property pages in the right pane.
3. Click the AutoCAD tab. The AutoCAD link’s settings page appears in the right pane.

4. Click the Edit button to modify the settings.

   Note:

   To export the settings file to your computer, click the Export button. This can be useful if you would rather edit the file in your favorite text editor. You can then copy your changes to the Clipboard and paste them into Configurator.

5. Locate the section of the file that begins with [Settings] and create or modify the MultipleTitleBlocks setting. This setting specifies a comma-separated list of the names of the configuration sections where the attributes for the title blocks that can exist in each layout in a drawing are mapped to property names as described in Configure Standard Title Block Synchronization (for example, [MyTitleBlock]). The attribute to property mapping settings are the same for single title blocks and for multiple title blocks except that for multiple title blocks, the settings must omit the property set name.

6. On a blank line in the file, create a new section named [MULTIPLE_TB_DISPNAMES]. This section specifies the column names for the layouts, title blocks, and attributes as they will appear to users in Meridian Enterprise PowerUser and the Meridian Web Client when they set the values for each layout as described in the Accruent Meridian Enterprise User's Guide. The following are predefined (internal) column names for objects other than attributes: BlockName (the title block name, always RO) and Layout (the layout name, always RO). If this section is not defined, the internal column names and attribute tag names will be shown instead.

7. On consecutive lines in the [MULTIPLE_TB_DISPNAMES] section, list the attribute names that you want to show to users on the Title Blocks page in the client applications, one line per attribute as in the following example. Also list any of the preceding predefined column names for which you want to show other than the internal name. For each attribute and predefined column name, specify a display name (for example, your organization’s term or in your local language). Surrounding the name in quotation marks is optional. You may also hide attributes that you do not want users to see by specifying the optional H flag.

   <ColumnName>=<Display Name>,[H]

   The following example specifies two block definitions and three visible display names, the revision number is hidden and not editable by users:

   MultipleTitleblocks=Mtitleblock1,Mtiteblock2
   
   [Mtitleblock1]
   CREATED_BY=CreatedBy
   REV_NO=Revision
   
   [Mtitleblock2]
   DWG_BY=CreatedBy
   REVNO=Revision
   
   [MULTIPLE_TB_DISPNAMES]
   Layout="Layout Name"
   BlockName="Title Block"
   DrawingNumber="Drawing No."
   RevisionNumber="Revision", H

8. Click OK.