Add suffix to Project names? Pre-fill Project description?

Question

Hi. I'm still working on my Ap3 workflow. Either of the actions in the subject would be most helpful:
• *Add suffix to Project names*. I have 144 Projects I would like to rename by adding a few words to the end of their current names.
• *Pre-fill Project Description*. The Project Description field can be found on the Project Information HUD ({Shift}+i with a Project selected). I would like to have all new Projects start with a default Project description. This could be put in from the import panel.
I could alternatively make use of being able to append text to the Project Description field.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi Dave,
When dealing with dropdowns the best event to use is the preOpen event. This means that there wouldn't be any script in the first dropdown.
Then in the second dropdown you would have a relative simple script that would look back at the user's selection in the first dropdown and then populate the display items in the second dropdown.
See examples here:
http://assure.ly/jcTahK
http://assure.ly/gcXx03
http://assure.ly/fYCuQ2
When adding an item to a dropdown, you can specify both the display item (what the user's sees) and the bound value (the value of the dropdown that is associated with the user's selection).
So,
this.additem("Clonmel", "[phone]");
This would add a city "Clonmel" to the dropdown and the value of the dropdown would be "[phone]", if the user selected Clonmel.
The textfield can then be given the same name as the dropdown and its binding set to Global (see the object > Binding palette when the textfield is selected).
Hope that helps,
Niall