Creating Project Revision and Issue History Reports

The Issue Manager creates reports with the sheet data, revision data, and issue data in the current file. The reports use information from the data records and record formats maintained by the title block border objects, and are compiled as worksheet resources. The worksheets are automatically updated whenever a new report is generated.

When the issue history and revision history reports are run, the name of the worksheet resource in the drawing file is automatically incremented with a suffix: “-1” if the report is all on one page, and a series of numbers (-1, -2, -3 and so on) for each page if the Create Pages/Multiple Worksheets option is selected. The sheet revision log has the suffix of the report run date.

The default worksheets have the following names and are available in the default content (Vectorworks Libraries\Defaults\Reports_Schedules\Architectural Reports.vwx).

●    Title Block Project Issue History

●    Title Block Project Revision History

●    Sheet Revision Log

These worksheets can be customized (see Concept: Worksheet Overview) and saved into the user folder to be used for future reports.

To create an issue or revision report:

1. Select File > Title Block Manager.

The Title Block Manager dialog box opens.

2. When all project, sheet, revision, and issue data for the reports is correct, click Issue Manager.

The Issue Manager dialog box opens.

►    Click to show/hide the parameters.

Parameter	Description
Create/Update Project Issue/Revision History	Select to create/update a Project Issue History and/or a Project Revision History report. A worksheet is created and saved as a resource in the file, accessible from the Resource Manager. Running this report after the initial creation updates the existing report.
Show _ most recent issues/revisions	Enter the number of issues/revisions to list on the report
Create Pages/Multiple Worksheets	Inserts the data into the worksheet and creates additional pages as needed to accommodate all the rows of title block border data; this is useful if a project has too many rows to fit neatly on a printed page. If deselected, the worksheet uses a database row and lists all the sheets on a single page.
Start at Row	If creating a multiple page worksheet, specifies the first row of the section in the worksheet to divide across multiple pages
Row Count	Specifies how many rows after the Start at Row to put on each page of the worksheet
Put the Worksheet Data on a Sheet Layer	Select to include the worksheet as a graphic object on a sheet layer; double-click the object to open the worksheet for editing (see Editing Worksheets)
Sheet Layer name	Enter the name of the sheet layer
Create/Update Sheet Revision Log	Creates a comprehensive log of all revision records on all sheets in the project, sorted by sheet ID and by revision order. A worksheet is created and saved as a resource in the file, accessible from the Resource Manager. Running this log after the initial creation updates the existing log.

3. Set the parameters, and click OK to return to the Title Block Manager dialog box.

4. Click OK; the worksheets are created after the Title Block Manager dialog box closes.

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Concept: Using Title Block Borders

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