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Property Tab Builder Conditional Lists

Question asked by Gianluca Mattaroccia on Aug 30, 2016
Latest reply on Dec 20, 2016 by Daen Hendrickson

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Hi,

I was wondering if any of you is using this new functionality available with SW2016.

You can use the Property Tab Builder to create List Group controls for conditional lists. This feature lets you define and administer lists once, and eliminate errors by automating the population of dependent properties.

The way I am using it is to populate some project related information via a linked Excel file. All works as it should but one one my colleagues is having issues with some designs he created. I am not sure and I do not see the reason for that but I am wondering if anyone using the conditional lists is experiencing constant freezing when selecting multiple parts within an assembly.

On my workstation all is perfectly fine.

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Gianluca Mattaroccia Sep 16, 2016 2:23 PM
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An update on this. I am now also having issues with custom property tabs created with conditional listings.

This is driving me crazy. Any one in the same boat?
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Gianluca Mattaroccia Sep 16, 2016 2:29 PM
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Do you know of a way to wipe the customer property file template from all the parts or assembly in a folder. Let me be more specific, I am not looking to delete the properties but the template saved with those file in the entire project folder.
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Gianluca Mattaroccia Sep 16, 2016 3:33 PM
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Ok I have an update on this.

I removed all the links to Excel files outside of the custom property templates and the problem went away.
To achieve this, I had to update the property template of all the parts and assemblies in my working folder. Very time consuming.

I am running Windows 10 Pro 64bit, on HP Z440, Intel Xeon CPU E5-1630 v3 @ 3.70GHz-32GB of RAM
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 with Solidworks 2016 SP4

I have already spoken to my VAR about it, let's see if we can get this issue resolved.
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- Igor Fomenko @ Gianluca Mattaroccia on Dec 16, 2016 10:51 AM
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  I meet the same problem. Conditional lists are slow down SW a lot. Don`t use them!!!
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  - Gianluca Mattaroccia @ Igor Fomenko on Dec 16, 2016 10:53 AM
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    I have got news that this has been fixed and will be implemented in 2017 SP2
    Hang in there!
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    - Igor Fomenko @ Gianluca Mattaroccia on Dec 16, 2016 4:06 PM
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      Now I separate one multisheet xlsx file to several one sheet files to speedup reading (to exclude concurent reading of several properties). And second I make strings in cells as short as possible to speedup match function.
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      - Gianluca Mattaroccia @ Igor Fomenko on Dec 17, 2016 1:17 PM
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        In the past, I have tried this too, but for me it did not change/improve performance.
        There is sometime strange happening in the background with Microsoft Excel.
        Again, I have discussed this extensively with SW.
        The developers have been fantastic (to be conservative) in listening and finding the solution in a relatively short time.
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Igor Fomenko Dec 17, 2016 8:40 AM
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And one more inconvenient behavior of conditional list - because of it doesn`t have "allow custom value" option you don`t see already assigned values in property fields!!!(((
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- Gianluca Mattaroccia @ Igor Fomenko on Dec 17, 2016 1:18 PM
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  You could have made it "an idea" and I would have voted for it....too late!!
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  - Igor Fomenko @ Gianluca Mattaroccia on Dec 20, 2016 6:54 AM
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    One more problem (idea). To make choice of property we need to see some property description but as I understand there is no such possibility.((
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    - Gianluca Mattaroccia @ Igor Fomenko on Dec 20, 2016 9:52 AM
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      Another idea....
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    - Daen Hendrickson @ Igor Fomenko on Dec 20, 2016 10:08 AM
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      Perhaps this idea captures what you are looking for... if so you can vote.
      
      Property Tab Builder: Tool Tips with Graphics
      
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