Introduction
FlexiTable™ uses a settings file to specify table
symbology and font styles. You may want to create different settings files for different
purposes (e.g. one for bills of material, another for a drawing title block) in different projects.
You can specify a settings file other than the default settings.xml through a configuration variable (CfgVar).
First of all Of course, you may need to install FlexiTable™.
Configuration Variables
There are several CfgVars used by FlexiTable to enable customised table creation …
- FLEXITABLE_DATA specifies where to look for
CSVandXMLfiles used as data sources - FLEXITABLE_SETTINGS specifies the name of the settings file to be used. FlexiTable™ looks for this file in the folder specified by MS_SETTINGSDIR
- FLEXITABLE_TEMPLATES specifies where to look for XSLT transform files
- FLEXITABLE_REPORTS specifies where to create
CSV,HTMLandXMLreport files
Below is an example folder structure for FlexiTable™ settings and data, where the folders
are on a network drive Q: …
You can see the value of CfgVars used by FlexiTable™ from the Help menu item Configuration Variables (on the Table Editor and Settings dialogs), which pops this dialog …
The above CfgVar values are defined in a user or project configuration file like this …
FLEXI_FOLDER = Q:/Flexi/Table/ FLEXITABLE_DATA = $(FLEXI_FOLDER)Source Data/ FLEXITABLE_REPORTS = $(FLEXI_FOLDER)Reports/ FLEXITABLE_TEMPLATES = $(FLEXI_FOLDER)Templates/
Starting FlexiTable™
You can start FlexiTable manually or automatically. To start FlexiTable manually, use the MicroStation keyin …
mdl load FlexiTable
You can optionally provide a CSV or XML file name, using the MicroStation keyin …
mdl load FlexiTable <file-spec>
FlexiTable deduces the file type from the extension and loads the data ready for use.
Start FlexiTable™ Automatically
You can start FlexiTable automatically when you start MicroStation. Specify FlexiTable
as a design file startup application by adding it to the MS_DGNAPPS application list
in your user or project MicroStation configuration file …
MS_DGNAPPS > FlexiTable
