Can a DC Attribute Text Box (Summary/Description) contain a Formula and html Formatting?

[bthomas3]

I’ve hit the problem mentioned in the following post, where changing one option across multiple selected components causes each attribute set to “users can see this attribute” to clear to a static number, identical across the board:

Formulas replaced with Values when changing multiple dynamic component options

I have 3 attributes I’d like displayed for the customer: Price, Bottle count, and Price per bottle. Since I can’t use “users can see this attribute” boxes, is there a way to drive my “Summary” attribute to show all 3 attributes, combining the string labels and the values with
line breaks between each? You can see what I’m trying to do here:

[MikeWayzovski]

You can use html in the name, description, summary and itemcode, take a look at :

Html is restricted see :

Dynamic Components supported HTML tags | SketchUp Help

[bthomas3]

Oh that’s good to know, thank you. Now how do I use html in conjunction with multiple references to attributes?

I have:
a_ListPrice
b_BottleCount
c_CostPerBottle

and I want the Summary to show:
=concatenate("List Price: ",a_ListPrice) < b r >
=concatenate("Bottle Count: “,b_BottleCount) < b r >
=concatenate(”$ per Bottle: ",c_CostPerBottle)

but since I’m guessing we can’t have multiple formulas in a field, maybe:
"List Price: "&a_ListPrice < b r >
"Bottle Count: "&b_BottleCount < b r >
"$ per Bottle: "&c_CostPerBottle

something like that?

[DanRathbun]

You seem to be under the false impression that the concatenate() function can only take 2 arguments.

=concatenate("List Price: ",a_ListPrice,"Bottle Count: ",b_BottleCount,"$ per Bottle: ",c_CostPerBottle)

… or …

=concatenate("List Price: ",a_ListPrice,"<br/>","Bottle Count: ",b_BottleCount,"<br/>","$ per Bottle: ",c_CostPerBottle)

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[DanRathbun]

@bthomas3

… but since I’m guessing we can’t have multiple formulas in a field …

I do not think this is true. For example in the onClick() function you can have several animate() function calls (of whatever kind you like) separated by semi-colons.

[bthomas3]

I see what’s going on- I was writing html line breaks in my responses, but they weren’t showing up.

I’d like each of my 3 statistics to exist on a different line so I don’t end up with…

List Price:
$100 Bottle
Count: 45
Cost Per
Bottle:$2.22

…or something equally broken up depending on the width of the window

[DanRathbun]

So,… then how does the 2nd example above work for you (with only 2 breaks) ?

[DanRathbun]

@bthomas3

I see what’s going on- I was writing html line breaks in my responses, but they weren’t showing up.

Yes you need to escape < and > brackets in the forum using a backslash \.

… unless it is within a ```html or ```xml code block.

[MikeWayzovski]

Don’ t use concatenate , use the Html inside brackets and concatenate with ‘&’ , like this:
= "<font color=red>list price :<\font> " & a_listprice & "<br><font size=1><font color=red>Bottle count : <font color=grey> " & b_bottlecount

[bthomas3]

@DanRathbun

=concatenate(“List Price: “,a_ListPrice,”<br/>”,“Bottle Count: “,b_BottleCount,”<br/>”,"$ per Bottle: ",c_CostPerBottle)

@MikeWayzovski

Don’ t use concatenate , use the Html inside brackets and concatenate with ‘&’ , like this: = "<font color=red>list price :<\font> " & a_listprice & "<br><font size=1><font color=red>Bottle count : <font color=grey> " & b_bottlecount

Both ways work great. Very easy, thanks! My semantics were off, thanks for the help!!