A way to make the auto text page number include prefixes?

SketchUp Feature Requests
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It seems like there HAS to be a way for the sketchup auto text feature to include prefixes. In all architectural or structural plans I have seen the number is never simply “1, 2, 3, …”. Typically we see “A100, A101, A200, A201, S300, S301, …”. I know you can simply add text to fill in before the auto text page number (e.g. A00), but that isn’t super useful.

In the same vain, is there a way to make your viewport titles match the page number exactly? I am finding that there is not due to the same situation described above. Where you almost always need to include a letter and multiple numbers to your page numbers.

This seems like it would be a very easy feature to add… Just let me put pretext before the auto text numbering…

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I may have misunderstood your requirement but I do something like this for drawing references which consist of a job number followed by a drawing number. I set up a template for the job that has the job number repeating on any new page but the drawing number uses autotext (so pagex = drawingx). But I think that is what you are calling not “super useful”. So I am not sure what would be.

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There currently isn’t an automatic way to add a prefix. If there was, though, how would Auto Text know when to change the prefix?

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Well you could make different sets of page numbers. Maybe that’s what you’re really looking for?

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See attached example
Sections.layout (14.2 KB)

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Good point. That would be a problem in the examples I gave. For my uses, I actually just want the prefix to remain the same throughout the entire layout.

I guess maybe I could just establish a in the auto text for this? And use it before my page numbers and my viewport titles?

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You could do that but just adding A00 or whatever before the auto text page number would be easy enough. And as @pyroluna suggests, setting up a template this way would make it a one time thing.

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Yeah I have been using a template for this. Which is actually what brought up my question because most of my layout files will a prefix, but they won’t necessarily be the same prefixes. If that makes sense. I was using the “A00” before the autotext page number, but then would have to go through and manually change each one per layout file.

I established a auto text custom text in the template so I can just “set it and forget it” at the beginning. That seems to do what I am looking for.

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