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Status Future consideration
Categories General
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 18, 2024

Integrate Item Types with Design Scripts tool for creating Rich PDF documents

The idea for improving the Design Scripts tool for printing to PDF is that user will also be able to refer to item types and their values. This will allow the user to automatically create bookmarks, links, etc. in the structure of the PDF document. This was previously available in former versions, through Tags, but in the latest versions of MicroStation there are no longer Tags, but Items.

Application example:

A user could create a PDF bookmark structure associated with custom-created Items and their values, which would allow the user to quickly find any object in a document sheet by clicking on its bookmark in the bookmark tree and automatically jumping to its position in the sheet. At the moment, something like this is impossible, as referencing cells, texts, etc. is insufficient.

As I mentioned above, this was previously available by reference to tags. Here you can find help topics, with an example of use (paragraph about tags). https://docs.bentley.com/LiveContent/web/MicroStation%20Help-v21/en/GUID-F84A1B3C-EB9F-8290-35F6-CC0762896755.html

Now the only thing that is missing to write such a design script is the assignment keywords for item types.