Eddy-2 Posted December 8, 2023 Posted December 8, 2023 Skimming through the new version 2.3 features and the Tags in particular, I was reminded of a CAD programme I once used which had a File Notes feature. Basically, these were just text based items relating to the drawing which got packed within the drawing file. They came in handy for such things as correspondence about the job and even parts lists copied from spreadsheets. Would such things be useful for Affinity files? Quote
MikeTO Posted December 8, 2023 Posted December 8, 2023 If Affinity doesn't gain this feature by the time we get scripting, it would be easy to add a notes or revision history feature with scripting by saving data to user variables (custom fields). I have this on my to do list for when scripting is available. My to do list is getting rather long. 🙂 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Eddy-2 Posted December 8, 2023 Author Posted December 8, 2023 Keep you busy over Christmas, Mike 😉. Here's a screenshot of the notes in action... MikeTO 1 Quote
MikeTO Posted December 8, 2023 Posted December 8, 2023 Just now, Eddy-2 said: Keep you busy over Christmas, Mike 😉. Here's a screenshot of the notes in action... I will have to ask Santa for scripting for Christmas. But seriously, yes, this is do-able. I envision a script that could create/edit/delete named notes as you've shown as well as date-time stamped notes for a revision history. The latter could be combined with saving so if you reassigned Cmd/Ctrl + S from Save to this script, it could prompt you to enter a revision history entry each time you save the file. I'd also consider adding a project info dialog that had several common options (client name, job number, job name, etc...) that would be saved as a single note and parsed when the dialog was opened to make it easier to use and also to avoid creating too many notes. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Eddy-2 Posted December 8, 2023 Author Posted December 8, 2023 Sounds good, Mike. I have CAD drawing files which contain all text-based information related to a particular job in File Notes (usually a small job) - correspondence, equipment used, etc. I.e. one file rather than several. Quote
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