Using a custom property to populate the text block of a shape

[normschaef]

Hi all:

This seems like an easy thing for me to do, but after several hours
searching, I'm stumped.

I'm using "ask to drop" to populate my shape with several custom properties
including manfacturer, model, device name....etc. After the user clicks ok on
the custom properties dialog, I'd like the shapes text block to be populated
with prop.deviceName.

I thought that in the shapesheet textblock section there might be a cell
called "text" where there might be something similar to vb's textbox1.text
property.

Is the key to this theText cell and the shapeText function. If so, how do I
make this work.

TIA,
Norm

 

[Paul Herber]

Hi all:

This seems like an easy thing for me to do, but after several hours
searching, I'm stumped.

I'm using "ask to drop" to populate my shape with several custom properties
including manfacturer, model, device name....etc. After the user clicks ok on
the custom properties dialog, I'd like the shapes text block to be populated
with prop.deviceName.

I thought that in the shapesheet textblock section there might be a cell
called "text" where there might be something similar to vb's textbox1.text
property.

Is the key to this theText cell and the shapeText function. If so, how do I
make this work.

In the shape's text edit mode, menu Insert -> Field and enter the
custom propety field names.