Picklist Manager

Used to define Picklists. A Picklist is a set of values associated with an item type property definition. Picklists can have text, numbers and integers as values. For example an item type for Doors can have a Picklist named Material associated with its property definition, Type. Material Picklist can have different values like Glass, Wood, Steel. A Picklist named Door Number, can have values 5, 12, 20 and so on and a Picklist named Weight can have values like 25.5, 50.28, 36.6 and so on.

Note: Picklists are supported only in V8 DGN (*.dgn) and DGN Library (*.dgnlib) files.

You can access this dialog from the following:

You can access this dialog by selecting Utilities >Edit Picklist in the Item Types Dialog

Ribbon: Drawing > Attach > Item Types > Picklist

Ribbon: Modeling > Content > Item Types > Picklist

Picklists with text, number and integer values

In the Item Types dialog you will now see Number and Integer options along with other options in the Property Definition pane. When you select Type as Number in the Property Definition pane, Picklists with numbers as values will be displayed in the Picklist drop-down menu. When you select Integer, Picklists with integer values will be displayed in the Picklist drop-down. When Text is selected, all Picklists are displayed in the Picklist drop-down.

When 'Integer' is selected in Type, Picklist drop-down shows only Picklists with integer values

Picklists

Setting	Description
Add New	Allows you to add a new Picklist.
Move up	Allows you to move a Picklist up in the list box.
Move down	Allows you to move a Picklist down in the list box.
Rename	Allows you to rename a Picklist.
Delete	Allows you to remove an already created Picklist.
Export Picklists	Allows you to export Picklists to excel files from the active DGN.
Import Picklists	Allows you to import Picklists from an excel (.xls and .xlsx) file into the active DGN.
Filter PickList	Allows you to search for a Picklist by name.

Values

You can add values to a Picklist here.

Setting	Description
Ascending order	Allows you to sort the values alphabetically from A to Z.
Descending order	Allows you to sort the values alphabetically from Z to A.
Delete	Allows you to remove an already created value.
Filter Values	Allows you to search for a value.

Setting	Description
Save	Allows you to save a newly created Picklist to the file.
Cancel	Closes the Picklist Manger dialog. If there are any unsaved changes then it shows an alert asking you to choose to save the changes and then close the dialog or close without saving.

Note: To delete a value, select the value and press <Delete>.

Key-in:

 DIALOG

PICKLISTS <

 OPEN

 CLOSE

| TOGGLE >

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

CREATE PICKLIST

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

CREATE VALUE [ Picklist Value ]

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

DELETE PICKLIST

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

DELETE VALUE

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

EDIT PICKLIST [ Picklist Name ]

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

EDIT VALUE [ Picklist Value Name ]

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

EXPORT EXCEL [ path\filename.xlsx ]

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

IMPORT EXCEL [ path\filename.xlsx ]

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

MOVEDOWN

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

MOVEUP

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

SAVE

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

SELECT PICKLIST [ Picklist Name ]

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

SELECT VALUE [ Picklist Value Name ]

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

SORTVALUESATOZ

Key-in:

 PICKLISTS

SORTVALUESZTOA

Picklists from DGNLibrary files

To Create a Picklist

To Add a Picklist to an Item's Property Definition

To Export a Picklist

To Import a Picklist

Parent topic: Item Types