And don't forget that, (and this is offten the case for me )
After 128 clic on fixtures to apply a serial patch, done, and by mistake clic on annther place, the selection is lost, that make me crazy and we waste a lot of time to re-select the items we "lose" by our mistake, to apply another serial with the same selection
The purpose of Capture is indeed to save time. However, we will always value simplicity over ultimate efficiency. Simplicity is what makes the software easy to learn and understand, which is more important in the long run.
Having said that, I'm not saying we don't need to find a better solution than what we have at the moment - just that a huge dialog isn't it.
Now, for those that do want to perform a "multiple sequential at once", I would be interested in hearing which properties you would want to assign sequentially at once, and with what values. In particular I would be curious how many of you want to combine more than one of Channel + Circuit + Unit at once?
Hello Lars.
Let's say I received that information and it's not importable in Capture.
Today, I would have to enter the data four times, item by item...
Having everything on a single pop-up screen, I could fill it all in at once. It's that simple.
Hello Lars, Hello All, The exemple of Oz Perrenoud is significative of one of the multiple situations we can meet.
For me, this day, I work on a project, and the technical Director want to work with AutoCAD. So the link is great by DWG export on Capture, and the information of blocks are keep. So, the unit Field and the Channel field mus be the same for both of us, jut to talk about the sames references. But il will be sometime other references in example On a truss with 20 Fixtures : Channel 101 thru 120 > first sequential Unit "Back Ligtht " 1 thru 20 > second sequential Patch universe 12.1 thru > Third sequential And Circuit the fourth.
Maybe the sequential tool will star with no option in sequantial, and activate only one information (i.e just channel) keep only the channel sequential window on screen, and if you chose by clicking to validate 2 fields, (i.e channel + patch) the windos should be larger but with only channel and path possiblities etc... The sequeatial windows as variable sizes to show only the type of sequentials you need at this moment
Thank you to consider this.