SW2006 General Tables - 2 Q's
SW2006 General Tables - 2 Q's
(OP)
I'm considering the use of 2006's General Tables, but have two questions:
1. It appears that you cannot save any text within the tables in a templates--can anybody verify this?
2. Can you (and if so, how easy would it be to) populate the cells of a General Table with values from an Excel spreadsheet? Has anybody done so yet?
Thanks!
Brian
1. It appears that you cannot save any text within the tables in a templates--can anybody verify this?
2. Can you (and if so, how easy would it be to) populate the cells of a General Table with values from an Excel spreadsheet? Has anybody done so yet?
Thanks!
Brian






RE: SW2006 General Tables - 2 Q's
2. Do you mean by the General table "automatically" reading or referencing an Excel spreadsheet, or manually?
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RE: SW2006 General Tables - 2 Q's
2. A little of both? I'm thinking of a macro that would read an Excel file and write its values to a general table (general table cell A1 value = excel spreadsheet cell A1 value, and so on). I'll use enhancement requests to try to persuade SW to automate the link somehow (perhaps a direct link).
RE: SW2006 General Tables - 2 Q's
Flores
SW 2006 SP1.0
RE: SW2006 General Tables - 2 Q's
I currently accomplish this by simply embedding an Excel spreadsheet, but now that we have General Tables, I'd like to investigate those as an alternative (hence the question).
Thanks,
Brian
RE: SW2006 General Tables - 2 Q's
You also might want to try a BOM, with 2 numbers in the balloon, and have the top number as the item number in the BOM, and the bottom number as the page number. I have seen the bottom number in a balloon either be the quantity or the page number.
Flores
SW 2006 SP1.0