Adding change notices to and removing change notices from layouts

Tools: Open on a Project-Specific Basis

You can assign change notices and release notes in the form of an index table to layouts. This information is displayed on the plan when you use Label layout Border (How) to drop a label style that contains the corresponding fields. Layout legends created with the Legend, Title Block tool (How) ignore entries of the subindex type.
To delete change notices, proceed as you would when creating them.

Activate Legend, Title Block in one of the following ways

• Actionbar:Task Layout Editor Task area Layout Editor

• Menu bar: Create Layout

• Palette: Tools Create area in the following module(s):

Layout

A label style is essentially an associative label. The contents of a label style update to reflect any changes you make to the properties of the element to which the label style has been applied.

Call Label layout border in one of the following ways

• Actionbar:Task Layout Editor Task area Layout Editor

• Menu bar: Create Layout

• Palette: Tools Create area in the following modules:

layout editor

Tip: You can also define the index table in the Layout Attributes dialog box, which you can access from the Allplan Exchange Layout Distribution or Layout and Project Attributes tool.

To add change notices to a layout

1. In the plan layout, click Open on a project-specific basis (How)
   or
   start the ProjectPilot and open the folder with the plans.
   

   Activate / Open on a Project-Specific Basis... in one of the following ways:

   • Title bar: Allplan icon
   • Title bar: Quick Access Toolbar
   • Shortcut menu: Hovering over the empty workspace Right mouse button Shortcut menu toolbar

   • Menu bar: File

   • Keyboard: O O
2. Right-click the layout to which you want to add change notices and, on the shortcut menu, choose Properties.
3. Select the Settings tab and open the Index table area.
4. Select the index type in the New index line. Layout legends ignore subindexes.

   The program displays the subentries of the index, proposing the index name automatically. Allplan inserts a new line - New index - for each additional layout index.

5. Define the index entries.
6. Confirm the Properties ... dialog box with OK and close the Open on a Project-Specific Basis dialog box: Layouts or the ProjectPilot.
   

To delete existing change notices

1. In the plan layout, click Open on a project-specific basis (How)
   or
   start the ProjectPilot and open the folder with the plans.
2. Right-click the layout whose change notices you want to delete and, on the shortcut menu, choose Properties.
3. Select the Settings tab and open the Index table area.
4. Click the index you want to delete.
5. Click Remove layout index at the end of the line.

   The program deletes the selected index without prompting you to confirm.

6. Confirm the Properties ... dialog box with OK and close the Open on a Project-Specific Basis dialog box: Layouts or the ProjectPilot.