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Hiding columns in a BOM

Hiding columns in a BOM

Hiding columns in a BOM

(OP)
Does anyone know of a way to hide columns in a BOM so that they do not appear when printed but do appear when you save the BOM out to an excel or a csv file.  I am on SW 2009 sp2

Thanks,  

RE: Hiding columns in a BOM

AFAIK, the only way is to unhide the columns before exporting.

RE: Hiding columns in a BOM

(OP)
AFAIK ?  

RE: Hiding columns in a BOM

AFAEK.

RE: Hiding columns in a BOM

(OP)
bueller .... bueller ?  

RE: Hiding columns in a BOM

AFAIK = As Far As I Know = To my knowledge

RE: Hiding columns in a BOM

AFAIK

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: Hiding columns in a BOM

You can create two copies of BOM Table (one for export and one for printing) and customize them. Next hide/show one of them in FM Tree depending on the situation (printing or exporting)

Artem Taturevich
CSWP

RE: Hiding columns in a BOM

(OP)
ah, thanks !  I really had no idea on that one.  A friend though they remember being able to do it with a $PRP$ or something to that effect in the header row of the BOM but I can't find any documents to support that, nor can I get it to work.  

RE: Hiding columns in a BOM

Can you move the non-printing columns to the right? If so, then set a Print Area (in Excel) for only the desired left-columns.

Otherwise you'll need a macro (actually probably an add-in if you want to use this across many files).

Ken

RE: Hiding columns in a BOM

As Artem said previously, just create 2-bom tables. No need to hide either table. For the exported table just drag it off of the drawing sheet and it will not print.

Andrew

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