It can be hard to notice if a text field is no longer updating and are stale. Would it be possible to have a way to visually notice stale labels by replacing the stale text with the word "stale" or something equivalent? Perhaps all text fields have a "stale" option in the background waiting to be displayed if the association between the text and the element is somehow untethered.
Moving this to the MicroStation team.
Out of the box, MicroStation has always shown broken text fields as "####".
It would be better if there were a utility that could scan a set of DGN files or models in current file and create a report (with links accessible in MicroStation to focus on the fields would be great). Or scan active model for broken fields, to be able to focus to them for editing.
I believe native Microstation already has this via a config variable.
MS_INVALID_FIELD_INDICATOR_STRING = "????"