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Now, with this in mind, what happens when our mysterious “John Smith” is no longer with the company and we need to update many MANY user script that have had “John Smith” hard coded into them??

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Now, with this in mind, what happens when our mysterious “John Smith” is no longer with the company and we need to update many MANY user script that have had “John Smith” hard coded into them??

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This is where Hurricanes “STATIC TAGS” come into play. These are TAGS like $TAG1$ through $TAG40$. Note: These tags normally would NOT go into your TB Block, they should reside in Hurricane only. So, in the onset you could have declared that $TAG1$ was equivalent to John Smith in the User Tag Manager like this… Then, inside your Title-Block Update Wizard, you can (instead of putting in “John Smith” as the Text for DRAWN_BY, you could have put “$TAG1$ And if “John Smith” has to be changed to any other text, you just update the Template file, and ALL USER SCRIPTS that contain $TAG1$ become updated each time they are run! Try it now! In which case your script would look like this… (LOAD “C:/PROGRAM FILES/HURRICANE/LISP/TB_WIZ1.LSP”) ;————- TB_WIZ1 TB DRAWN_BY $TAG1$ ;————- TB_WIZ1 TB DRAWING_NAME $FILENAME$ REGEN ;————- When Hurricane runs this script, it will substitute both the $TAG1$ and the $FILENAME$ TAGS into the script before writing the “Batch Script” t

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