Hi

I was just wondering, if any body uses Object data manager. I have tried using it. But very less.

IMO, this data can be used externally for invoicing (Job billing) purpose. Your opinions please.

Does any body use it for job tracking or any other purpose ?

Regards 

Anand 

Yeah. Not editable in UI. Apart from trying it to use it externally, I tried figuring out the ways to use it. I haven't yet found any. But feel if reworked, can be useful for maintaining customised data related to jobwork, clients, job tracking, invoicing etc.

Hi Anand,

From what Foster told me, this feature was added specifically for one major customer's need's many years ago. Maybe in Version 3?

Anand:

Yeah. Not editable in UI. Apart from trying it to use it externally, I tried figuring out the ways to use it. I haven't yet found any. But feel if reworked, can be useful for maintaining customised data related to jobwork, clients, job tracking, invoicing etc.

I've never been real clear what the Object Data Mgr served either. What could be a real asset is a section like the "from New Template" that would maintain client and project specs linked to that design. In an another post I suggested as a make-shift approach you can add a layer to keep info on and then make it non-printable/invisible, but it would be nice to actually have more of a form that would insert some of the information from the design into categories - ideally customizable.

A little early for April Fools Jeff... better be careful or they'll make you start hocking butter commercials! 

Heh, I'm just trying to entice more women to this forum.

stodare:

A little early for April Fools Jeff... better be careful or they'll make you start hocking butter commercials! 

Apart from having half the default fields in German, I can only really see this of any use if it was part of the "Symbols"/"Symbol manager"... unless you could link fields to a specific object property (like width, height, position on page, in a group, fill, outline, number of nodes, special shape type, length, enclosing area, page it's on... etc) then you have a quick and easy customisable 'properties' page that you can see at a glance the information you want.

A method to sort/filter on these fields would be one of the major things I think is missing. Exporting the data to a XLS or even CSV would be nice as well. (instead of the "open spreadsheet" option)

 Hi Jeff

I also have observed this feature exist for a long. However, I did not use it till I was introduced to Macros. I tried to find out ways using / pulling the data for using it in macros. But as Os says, its a different kind of beast & uneditable in UI.

Now the question arises, why does it exist for so long if it is not used to that extent. If I remember, there was a discussion on Beta site about the elimination  of  OCR from Trace, CorelScan, RAVE etc. due to non or less usage (or usefulness). If that is the case, what is OD manage doing here in X4 ?

It can be of great use if this is made free to use in UI.

Anand 

 Hi Anand

We use the ODM quite a lot in our cemetery mapping services for registering interment data. The ODM has become a major tool and makes looking up information on a burial site easy. We just click on a lot number or the name of the interred and all related data on that burial site or person pops up. Before discovering the ODM, we would use and link an Excel files to the maps. We also use the ODM for recording details for cemetery virtual tours and videos...it's a grate tool...TOPOGRAPHIX.COM

Hi Topographix

Its a total new kind of application usage of CorelDRAW for me. Are you able to use the data out side CorelDRAW? May be in a database application?

Anand