2 Replies Latest reply on Mar 17, 2014 12:28 PM by Peter Lane

Static Dispatch Variable

Peter Lane Mar 13, 2014 1:56 PM

How do you keep a dispatch variable constant?

When you have a variable defined in dispatch it always seem to change as you work through "For All documents"

For example:

I have an ECN file that has the name "ECN-0120.DOC" in that file is a custom property "ECN-Number" it is = "ECN-0120".

I have several drawings pasted as reference to this ECN file and as I submit the ECN for approval, the pasted references, in this case drawings and the associated parts go into pending approval. This is all GOOD.

I have a dispatch program that will cycle through the files, find the ECN File and Corresponding custom property of "ECN-0120"

I then want to recycle through the documents and assign the ECN-0120 to the SLDDRW files. Each ECN may have 1 or More drawings/parts associated with it

However every time through it resets the "ECN-Number" to nothing once it grab the any file other than ECN-0120.DOC.

I want to automatically assign the ECN-Number to the drawings/parts automatically so I don't have clarical error. I hope to get this working so the Revision Block updates as well.

Am I missing something?

Re: Static Dispatch Variable

Tim Read Mar 17, 2014 8:28 AM (in response to Peter Lane)

Hi Peter,

I think that the only way for you to do this is to write the variable out to the registry in the first loop through all documents and have a second variable equal to that same registry value.

Because writing the variable to the registry is an action within the loop it will not be changed in the second loop.

Tim
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  Peter Lane Mar 17, 2014 12:28 PM (in response to Tim Read)
  
  Tim,
  
  Thanks, this is the way I finally got this to work on Friday, with some behind the scenes help from Joy Garon.
  
  Thanks Joy and TIM.
  
  Pete
  
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