Fields with diesel

[markjohn.perry]

I know nothing about diesel, but have a suspicion that it can do what I want, which is:

I use a field on my title blocks to define the status of the project. This works well when the project moves status, preliminary - tender - for construction.

This stops me from having to change it on all title blocks. However where it falls down is when a new drawing is introduced to the project during the tender period which will have a status which differs to the main status of the project.

What I hope a diesel expression will do is to look at a custom sheetset field, if this is blank it will show the project status, if not it will show the contents of the custom sheetset field.

Anyone with a clue about this please post a reply - even if it's telling me that it's impossible I can stop bashing my head against the wall

many thanks

from sore head

[RobertB]

You won't be able to do that with DIESEL, AFAIK. The sheet set properties are not exposed to DIESEL. Might I suggest an alternative?

Place the two fields on separate layers. Freeze the inappropriate layer in each drawing.

[markjohn.perry]

Many Thanks for the suggestion

I shall try to come up with a way to automate this process