Tip: Setting the Default Update Type

[John Scheffel]

Annotation 11.6 has added a new command which allows you to set the default Type for the View Update function. In the past several people I support asked how to do this and the answer was "you can't". I think this will be a popular new customization. Here is some example code that you can add to your am_customize file to change this setting:
;;----------------------------------------------------------------------------
;; Starting with version 11.6, you can set the default Type for updating
;; a view/sheet/drawing. The default is :VIEW. Be careful about changing
;; to your default to :DRAWING since it may cause long updates if you
;; don't change this default while updating. Uncomment one of the
;; following lines to set your default type.

;(docu_set_default_type_for_update :VIEW)
;(docu_set_default_type_for_update :VIEW-SET)
;(docu_set_default_type_for_update :SHEET)
;(docu_set_default_type_for_update :DRAWING)

[Bob Zajeski]

Thanks John! That just saved me 1,825 clicks a year!

I'd like to see postings of am_customize files. I still have trouble getting Annotator to start the way I like to use it.

[Jim McKim]

I tested this in v11.5, and it seems to work just fine, so I would revise John's original post to read "starting with version 11.5..." even though it looks like he copied the comments directly from something CoCreate published.

Thanks, John. Good tip.

[Jim McKim]

Now that I've set the default update type to DRAWING instead of VIEW for our network, my recent work has been editting existing drawings and I usually want to update only one view! Figures...
I knew I can change the default by entering my choice at the command line, but I wanted a toolbar button for updating a single view without changing the default behaviour. So, I created a new command called Update One View with the following command string: (UI::UIC-AM-ACTION "am_view_update :update_amount 3") and made a bitmap image based on the one for Update View but add the numeral "1" in the empty space in the upper right area. Then I dragged this command onto an existing toolbar. Works like a champ.:D
I've attached the bitmap file.