I made a group and called it CABINET
I made two component shapes in the group, one called BENCHTOP the other called KICKBOARD
In the geometry, the shape KICKBOARD happily responds to LineTo calls to Sheet.3!Prop.Row_1
It doesn't like what I thought would be obvious Sheet.CABINET!Prop.Row_1
Why is this? Am I stuck with sheet.x even though I renamed the individual shapes within the group? This is making references to group custom properties difficult
I hope somebody corrects me on this, because using assigned names would be nicer, but, I think you're stuck using Sheet.X! However, it is somewhat less painful if you go to menu bar > View > Drawing Explorer Window. In the DEW, click Foreground pages and then follow the cascading trail of shapes. Each shape will be shown by its Sheet.X! ID. At least you have a nice localized listing to easily see what to reference. BTW, if you click on a shape ID in the DEW, that shape will be selected in the drawing window.
HTH
Wapperdude
If you have a shape named "Cabinet", then the syntax would be:
Cabinet!Prop.Row_1
But the friendly names only work at the same level/scope of grouping. So shapes on the page can refer to each other by name. Shapes within a group can refer to each other by name. But if you cross a level of grouping, you have to use the Sheet.n! syntax.
:D Thanks for the clarification. I hadn't tried level to level, was always traversing up the group chain. At least I had the "!" correct. ::)