Reactors during publishing

[JasonSelf]

Will reactors function when publishing drawings? I want a function to activate either at the beginning of the plot command or at drawing open, however it is important that this command can run if I publish from sheet sets. (It is to put a "Not for construction" mark on the sheets)

[RobertB]

I have not found reactors/events to work in background plotting/publishing. However, others may have a solution I haven't found.

If you are using SSM, why not have a sheet set custom property that you can use for this purpose? All you need to do is blank the property if you don't want the text to appear in the publish.

[JasonSelf]

Thanks,
I was hoping to get tricky with a custom plot log and pulling a string in the registry to set the "watermark" in an effort to make it as user indestructible as possible. I was playing with the idea of reading the sheet set property for project phase to a field, however it does not work through x-refing the way I would like it to, and I am not sure how to set and read these properties via lisp.

[RobertB]

You cannot read/set SSM properties via LISP. VBA and other languages, yes.

[Ed Jobe]

I have not found reactors/events to work in background plotting/publishing. However, others may have a solution I haven't found.
These events are not exposed to the COM api's. They are only available in the .NET api. I have developed a commercial app that applies a block as a plot stamp using these events. See the PlotReactorManager object.

[RobertB]

These events are not exposed to the COM api's. They are only available in the .NET api. I have developed a commercial app that applies a block as a plot stamp using these events. See the PlotReactorManager object.Thanks for the info, Ed.