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To be able to create composite text you need superuser access to your dRofus database. From the top menu in dRofus navigate to Administration→ Settings→ Items;
There are three options for composite text; Composite text - item, Composite text - occurrence and Composite text - products.
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To create new composite text (for items) go to 'Composite text item' and click 'Add':
- Name: Name of the new attribute containing the composite text
- Group: Where you want the attribute to be placed in the items property panel. You can use existing groups like "General", "Connections" or "Classification", or type in a new name - which will create a new group in the item property pane.
- Tooltip: Optional help-text that will be visible when hovering the cursor over the attribute.
- Show in property panel: Choose if you want the composite text attribute to be shown in the property pane or not. In most cases you will want to have it visible in the property panel, but in some cases the project might want to e.g. sync the text directly to the model without having it visible in dRofus at all.
- Composite text: Defines how to composite the chosen fields in the new attribute. The text can be customized by using {0} to refer to the first field in the list of fields, {1} to refer to the second field etc. You can add delimiters between fields (e.g. URL's , - / etc.)
- Fields: Select 'Add/remove fields' to add fields to include in the new attribute.
In our example we have following settings;
I have named the attribute "Name - BIM ID" and placed it in the 'General' group in the item property panel. We have typed in a Tooltip and included in the property panel. I have added "Name" and "BIM ID" as fields and decided that the fields ({0} & {1}) should be combined with a hyphen (see the 'Composite text' option).
The result in the item property panel will look like this;
The group is highlighted in blue. Then the values in 'BIM ID' and 'Name' (highlighted in orange) has been combined in a composite text in our new attribute ' Name - BIM ID'.
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The setup will follow the same pattern as above, however, instead of adding two existing attribute we want to combine one attribute with a static URL.;
In the "Composite text" option I have entered the static url that IKEA is using for its product cataloguescatalogs. I have then assumed that we give the product a number in dRofus that corresponds to its product number in the IKEA product cataloguecatalog, and add this to the end of the URL. This combination will automatically create the valid URL to the product specifications.
The result in product property panel will look like this:
