Creating a Popup message on opening a CATPart

[Mooseman]

Good Morning,

Does anyone know how to create a popup message that apears once on opening a CATPart.

I have a CATPart that has external links and I wish all users to open the "Feeder" document before working on the file. I can use a rule to popup a message every time the file requires an update, but this is annoying. If I new the KWA or KWE syntax for checking if an external link is populated then that would be ideal.

Any help from anyone would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Mooseman

 

[JeniaL]

can you please tell more about a rule which messages if update is needed?

yea it's a great idea to have a message at file opening. i also want to know how to do that..

 

[2briancox]

You could create your own: "Open a Mooseman Part" VBA code that would check if a chosen part requires a feeder document, and if so, first open the feeder document, then open the part. I've done something similar with DXF parts to record a Path for automatically clicking a "SaveDXF" function, and for correcting text shift.

 

[Mooseman]

TiKito

create a string parameter = Update
Set the string with two text options from the dropdown = None and Stop
In KWE create a reaction
Source type = selection
Sources = Pick your top of part node in spec tree
available event = update
Action = knowledgeware action

text to be typed in action box

if Update== "None"{
Message("please update your links")
}


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2briancox can you provide any of your VBA code?

 

[2briancox]

Unfortunately, no I cannot. I developed it for work, so it is proprietary.

 

[2briancox]

I would say that there is plenty of code here in the forum for managing file opening through VBA. Try searching "Open part vba" in this forum.

 

[Mooseman]

ahh, I have had a look at the forum. I think you have miss understood I do not want the file to open via VBA but an automatic popup in CATIA when the part is opened by the user.

 

[JeniaL]

Mooseman can you please post this with pictures? pictures always a great guide.

TiKito

create a string parameter = Update
Set the string with two text options from the dropdown = None and Stop
In KWE create a reaction
Source type = selection
Sources = Pick your top of part node in spec tree
available event = update
Action = knowledgeware action

text to be typed in action box

if Update== "None"{
Message("please update your links")
}

 

[JeniaL]

figured out a little bit how to deal with messages, but my message pops up only after update and not on file open. the whole point is
to get a message on file open.

btw you wrote pick your top of part node.what exactly should i pick in source?

 

[Mooseman]

Tikito,

Please read the full thread, I asked "Does anyone know how to create a popup message that appears once on opening a CATPart"

I had a way of getting a message to appear on update, which you have done (using the method I described.

 

[itsmyjob]

I did not watch memory / cpu usage ...

Sub msgOnNewPart()

Dim a As Integer
a = CATIA.Documents.Count

While True
    CATIA.Caption = CATIA.Documents.Count & "/" & a & "   :"
    If CATIA.Documents.Count > a And _
    TypeName(CATIA.Documents.Item(CATIA.Documents.Count)) = "PartDocument" Then
        MsgBox ("new CATPart")
        a = CATIA.Documents.Count
    End If
Wend

End Sub

you can run this macro at catia startup with modification in your command line

Eric N.
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