Create Date in Titleblock

[Flo]

Hey there,

when the engineers have create a drawing they save it on our server in
a "Work-OPJ" folder.

When I save them in our archive-folder the automatically set create
date changes, cause the OPJ folder changes.

Is there any way to set it back to the old date in any menu?

The other way would be to not use the create date macro and use a
blank field to type in the date manually... but this will cause a lot
of undated drawings.

Any ideas?

Regards
Flo

[Ron_O]

Hey Flo,
Not sure if I understand what is happening exactly here. Do you mean the date changes without even opening the scm -just with a file copy? I believe the modify date changes when you open the scm page and then open the property editor or make any design change, then save the design. The titleblock date shouldn't change if you just do a file copy -from one location to another.
Mind you, there are 2 different page date properties: Page Modify Date and Page Create Date. The Create date property should remain fixed with design changes.
p.s. What is the create date macro you mentioned about?

Ron O

[Flo]

Ron,

first at all sorry, i was in a hurry and my English is a mess than
(and now).

I created a title block for our company with some manual set
informations like revision, drawing number and name.
And some automatically set informations like create date, change date
and page count (which is not working, but that is another topic).

When the engineer is creating a drawing, he saves it in our under-
construction-folder.
When the unit is build, its my job to save these drawings in the
archive.
The engineer is mostly doing a project *.OPJ and add all drawings in
there.
I am splitting these drawings into many *.OPJ for the boards, the
central groups or the units, split them in electrical, electronic and
mechanical parts.
So I create new Project folders in the archive and drag and drop the
*.DSN in the new folders (inside Capture, not windows).

After doing so, the create date from the schematics is changing to the
create date of the folder or project.
My current solution, is to double click the create date (sorry for
naming it macro) and set it invisible, and add a text field on the
same location with the manually typed date.

I am wondering, if there is any way, to change the *.OPJ create date
or where ever these date is coming from?

Hope this is more clear now, thanks for your answer on the shit i
wrote before.

Regards
Flo

[kevinh]

Flo,

how is it going?

I think that if you are creating new project folders then that is the
date as it is a new file.

could be wrong, just my thoughts.

best regards

kevinh.

by the way, I have been answering posts on that other forum but my
posts never appear.

I must be barred.

[Flo]

On Mar 4, 12:20 pm, kevinh <kevin.h...@elcometer.com> wrote:
> Flo,
>
> how is it going?

I am fine, thanks. You? Haven't seen any posts of you here or in the
old forum for a long time?!

> I think that if you are creating new project folders then that is the
> date as it is a new file.
>
> could be wrong, just my thoughts.

Any idea if there is any menu to change this?

> best regards
>
> kevinh.
>
> by the way, I have been answering posts on that other forum but my
> posts never appear.
>
> I must be barred.

That's the answer why I haven't read anything of you in the last
month.
It's such a shame, what EMA is doing over there!

Regards
Flo

[Ron_O]

Hey Flo
Your English is very good -better than some who are native English, so no worries.

I did a little experimenting here and I could not find any menu setting or function to retain the copied schematic date. From what I can see, when you copy a schematic page (through ctrl-C/ctrl-V or drag and drop) within the design environment, you are in-effect creating a NEW schematic, which also inherits the current date. This is why your copied schematic shows a new (current) date.

A few ways you can get around this:
1. Change your computer date to the old schematic date before you copy the schematic to the project folder. Not too practical, since you will need to remember to change the date back, not to mention many date changes.

2. Instead of copying the schematic, copy the project. Make multiple copies of the original design (*.dsn), renaming them based on the final design name. Then open each design and delete the unwanted schematics and/or pages. This is basically the same as what you are currently doing except doing it by a 'subtractive' method instead of an 'additive' method. Since the schematic is not copied inside the design process, its date will remain unchanged.

Hope it works out for you.

Ron O

[Flo]

Ron,

thank you so much for spending your time for trying out how to fix my
problems.

And my written English isn't even as good as i wish it would be. I am
happy about the Google chrome auto-correct function ;-)

BTT:

I will give number 2 a try.

We are just having a project with 120 pages. I guess changing the date
would waste to much time, but it is maybe still be better than setting
up a text field on every page.

So thanks again for every reply.

Regards
Flo

[Flo]

> 2. Instead of copying the schematic, copy the project. Make multiple copies
> of the original design (*.dsn), renaming them based on the final design
> name. Then open each design and delete the unwanted schematics and/or pages.
> This is basically the same as what you are currently doing except doing it
> by a 'subtractive' method instead of an 'additive' method. Since the
> schematic is not copied inside the design process, its date will remain
> unchanged.
>
> Hope it works out for you.
>
> Ron O

This is working really good! Thanks a lot Ron. You saved me a lot of
time!

Regards
Flo

[Ron_O]

Glad to hear you got it all working Flo!
Cheers,
Ron O