I would like to display the component description in the tree (right click on tree>tree display>show component descriptions); however, the component description in the tree is showing up as the value/text expression in the custom property, not the actual evaluated value.
In my summary information dialog box, I have a custom property name as "Description" with the value/text expression is "$PRP:"SW-Comments"". This means it takes the value from the comments box in the summary tab and uses it as the description.
The problem is that in the tree it shows $PRP:"SW-Comments" rather than the evaluated value, which is something different. Any thoughts?
The reason we have it set up this way is so we can fill everything out on the summary tab without looking at the custom tab.
I have the same issue. I use $PRP:"Desc1" $PRP:"Desc2" to populate Descriptions on models downloaded from McMaster-Carr (I made a quick little macro to do this).
Question: have you filled out any SolidWorks Enhancement Requests for this problem? This might be a way for SW to look at the problem officially and for us to track when the fix will happen. Although technically this is a bug, I am less familiar with the SW bug reporting process. (Likely, "SW Enhancement Requests" is their non-derogatory name for "Report Our Software Bugs (And Maybe Some Genuine Improvements) Here".