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to update, while ignoring others. If you select to update a style with the associated standard, the selected style is copied
from the project standards drawing into the project drawing, overwriting the existing style definition.
NOTE Automatic synchronization of standard styles and display settings does not happen during background plot/publish.
WARNING You should always synchronize the display settings in your project. Version discrepancies between the display
settings in the project drawings can result in objects in project drawings not being displayed consistently. You also need to
make sure to synchronize all project standards drawings with the current standard display settings, as described in
“ Synchronizing Project Standards with Each Other ” on page 382 , to ensure consistent display in the standards drawings.
Synchronizing a project with standards
Versioning Styles and Display Settings
To determine whether a standard style or display setting in a project drawing is identical to the corresponding object
in the project standards drawing, styles and display settings in a project are versioned. The version information includes
a unique GUID (Global Unique Identifier), the date and time of the last modification, the windows login name of who
last modified the object, and an optional comment.
A new version of a standard style or display setting in a project drawing is created each time the style or display setting
is changed in Style Manager or Display Manager, and saved.
In a project standards drawing, a new version of a standard style or display setting must be manually created after the
style or display setting has been changed in Style Manager or Display Manager. For information about versioning
standard styles and display settings, see “
Versioning Standards ” on page 373. In project standards drawings, a version
history is also stored. The version history will be used to determine if styles or display settings in project drawings are
identical to the version in the project standards drawing, or newer or older versions.
An older version of a style or display setting in a project drawing is a version that exists in the project standards drawing,
but is not the latest version. A newer version of a style or display setting in a project drawing is a style or display setting
that exists in the project standards drawing, but has no corresponding version in its version history.
A special case occurs if a standard style or display setting in a standards drawing has no version information. This can
happen if the version information has been purged, as described in “
Purging the Version Information from a Project
Standards Drawing ” on page 381. In this case, the standard style or display setting still participates in the synchronization
and is considered the “latest version” when comparing with versions of the object in project drawings. No attempt is
made during synchronization to automatically create a version GUID or history list. If you want to add version
information to the standard style or display setting, you need to manually version the object as described in “
Updating
Standard Objects in a Project Standards Drawing ” on page 376.
Synchronization Conditions
Two styles or display settings are considered identical if the following are identical:
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Object type (e.g. wall style, display set)
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Name
■
Version GUID
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