Text Favorite Manager

Used to create and manage text favorites. The Text Favorites Manager supports element property types to enable reusable property-driven annotations. The text favorites created in the Text Favorite Manager can contain placeholder fields as well as fields with property values (fields created in the Text Editor window).

You can open this dialog from the following:

Text Editor window: Selecting Manage Text Favorites from the Insert Favorite drop-down

Setting	Description
Save	Saves the new text favorites and changes made to existing text favorites. `TEXFAVORITE` `SAVE` Note: Make sure the text favorite is selected before executing the key-in.
Create a new category	Creates a new category or sub-category of text favorites. To create a sub-category, first select the category in which you want to create the sub-category. All the categories, subcategories, and favorites created in a file are grouped under a root category that has the name of the file. For example, in the above image, the CommonTextFav.dgnlib is the root category. If the MS_DGNLIBLIST_TEXTFAVORITES configuration variable points to more than one DGN library files that contain text favorites, then a separate root category is displayed for each DGN library. `TEXFAVORITECATEGORY` `ADD` [ `category_name` ]
Create a new text favorite	Creates a new text favorite and displays in the Favorites list box.
Copy	Copies the selected category or favorite. You can also press `<Shift>` key and sequentially multi-select items or use `<Ctrl>` key to multi-select categories and text favorites in any order and then use the Copy command to copy the selected items.
Paste	Pastes the copied category or favorite within the selected category.
Rename	Allows you to rename the selected category or favorite. `TEXFAVORITECATEGORY` `RENAME` [ `category_name` ] Note: Make sure the text favorite category is selected before executing the key-in.
Delete	Deletes the selected text favorite. `TEXFAVORITE` `DELETE` Note: Make sure the text favorite or category is selected before executing the key-in.
Favorites list box	Lists the text favorites from the current file as well as from DGN libraries pointed by the MS_DGNLIBLIST configuration variable. Use the following key-in to expand the selected text favorite category: `TEXFAVORITECATEGORY` `EXPAND` Use the following key-in to select a subcategory of text favorite: `TEXFAVORITECATEGORY` `SELECTSUBCATEGORY` [ `sub_category_name` ]
Pop-up menu in Favorites list box	The following options are displayed when you right-click a category or favorite in the Favorites list box: Save - Saves the new text favorites and changes made to existing text favorites. New Category - (Available only when you select a category) Creates a new category or sub-category of text favorites. New Favorite - Creates a new text favorite and displays in the Favorites list box. Copy - Copies the selected category or favorite. Paste - Pastes the copied category or favorite within the selected category. Rename - Allows you to rename the selected category or favorite. Delete - Deletes the selected category or favorite. Sort Children - (Available only when you select a category) Alphabetically sorts the items within the selected category.
Text Style	Sets the Active Text Style from a list of all available text styles.
Open Text Style Dialog	Opens the Text Styles dialog which is used to create and modify text styles.
Revert Style	Removes text style override(s) and resets the style to its previously saved version.
Spell Check	Opens the Check Spelling dialog, which is used to spell check the text in the editor.
Insert Symbol	Opens the Symbol Inserter dialog which is used to insert symbols and create custom symbol lists. Right-clicking a symbol and selecting Add to Favorites adds the symbol to the Favorite Symbols tab. Commonly used symbols can be inserted directly from the list in the Favorite symbols tab.
Editing Box	Allows you to enter favorite content. You can insert normal text or fields in this box.
Select Element	Allows you to select an element and view its properties.
Field Type	Lists the field types. You can choose from the following options: Element Properties Model Properties File Properties Sheet Index Properties Item Types `TEXFAVORITE` `SELECTFIELDTYPE` < `Element Properties` \| `Model Properties` \| `File Properties` \| `Sheet Index Properties` \| `Item Types` >
Field Sub Type	Lists the subtypes of the field. Options in this drop-down list depend on the Field Type selection. `TEXFAVORITE` `SELECTSUBFIELDTYPE` [ `sub_field_name` ]
Properties	Lists the properties of the selected field subtype. You can search properties by entering the property name in the Search field above this list box. `TEXFAVORITE` `SELECTPROPERTY` [ `"parent_property_name"` ] [ `"child_property_name"` ]
Property Formatter	When you select a property, it's formatting properties display on the right side of the Properties list box. For example, if the value of the property is a text string, you will get the option to select the case in which you want to display the value. Similarly, if the value of the selected property is an integer, you can set the minimum width, display of leading zeros, and alignment.
Preview	Previews the text favorite. For example, if you select the Model Name field, active model's name is displayed in the Preview section. Note: For element properties, preview is displayed only if an element of that type is present in the active model. In case of model properties, preview is displayed only for the active model type. For example, if you are in a design model, the preview will be shown only for design model properties and not for drawing model properties. Whenever preview cannot be shown, an invalid field indicator string #### is displayed.
Accept	Select this button to add the property as a field to the favorite. `TEXFAVORITE` `ADDSELECTEDFIELD`

Key-in:

 TEXTFAVORITE

DIALOG

Key-in:

 TEXTFAVORITE

CLOSE