Tips to simplify saving As built documentation

Change in 2013-09-26: Now there’s an easier way to do this. Read here.

Follow this guide so you don’t have to enter the description texts again!

Note: Take a document type at a time
(for example,. Drawings ACC. to the example below)

1. In the document tree, navigate to the build action/X/Drawings, select the dom files to be relational documents and put them in the document bin.
2. Go to document and highlight all the files and click on “Create Excel”
3. Save the Excel file on your hard disk and open it.
4. In column (C), replace the text Construction Act to relationship in all the lines. Note: check spelling in some project called the Relationship documents.
5. Save then Excel file as a CSV (comma delimited) (*.csv) “with a clear name. The CSV file must be in the same folder on your computer where you have the files you prepared as relationsfiler. Note: the files should have the same name as both bra and RH.
   
   Answer Yes when the box comes up:
   
   
   and then close the Excel file without saving: (don’t save)
   
6.  If you then add the files to Apricon so use: Save/Import from file
   and then choose the csv file you created earlier.
7. Make sure to adjust the date and remove ev. Rev-designation for all files before you press save. In this way you will get with you the description text you entered at each build action file without having to rewrite the text.