Dialog call:You have opened a macro project. You have marked a macro box in the graphical editor, a page in the page navigator or a layout space in the layout space navigator. Popup menu item Properties. In the Properties <...> dialog, select the Macro definition tab.
In this tab you specify the name and description for prepared macros in a macro project. During the automatic generation of macros from a macro project the specifications carried out here are used for the macro files to be generated.
This tab is not displayed if the "Referencing" or "Subordinate" type of usage is set in a macro project for a macro box. This is also the case in a schematic project.
If you have entered macro names in several lines in this tab, a macro box, a page or a layout space is assigned to several macros. During automatic generation the same content (same macro box, same page or same layout space) is stored in several macros.
Overview of the main dialog elements:
In this table those macros are displayed that are assigned to the respective macro box, the page or the layout space.
The table contains the following columns:
- Macro: Name: Enter the name for the macro, if necessary with path specification, or select it interactively by using [...]. This name is then used for the file name of the macro to be generated.
You can use the Insert path variable popup menu item to branch to the dialog Select path variable where you can select one of the available path variables. - Macro: Description: Here you store a meaningful text for the macro file. The text entered here becomes the description text of the macro automatically generated from the macro project and is displayed in a comments field when the macro is inserted.
Notes:
- The values entered in the first line serve to define the first macro. As soon as you have carried out entries in the first line, these are compared with the values of the properties for the macro name and the macro description. At a macro box, for example, the values in the Name and Description fields on the Macro box tab are synchronized with the entries in the first line of the Macro definition tab.
- The specification of a file extension in the Macro: Name column is only necessary if you want to generate symbol macros (*.ems) from macro boxes or layout spaces. By default 2D or 3D window macros (*.ema) as well as page macros (*.emp) are generated.
Popup menu:
The popup menu provides - depending on the field type (e.g. date, integer, multilingual) - the following menu items that are, depending on the situation, available for influencing the table or editing the values in the fields. You can find an overview of these popup menu items in the section Popup menu items.
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