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Swapping or Changing Genie Links Manually

Brandon

When a Citect Graphics Page is opened and Graphics Builder cannot find a genie it usually gives you the option to change the genie link.

Is there a way to manually do this?

For instance, what if I have a newer version of a genie that has additional features but I don't want to overwrite the original and I also don't want to re-paste, re-align and refill in the genie forms.

I would like to say, "Ok, page use Genie B everywhere there is Genie A".

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  • This can also be done using some Graphics Builder Automation (GBA) scripting:
    - You can open a page and loop through every AN.
    - Check if it's a genie. If so, retrieve the x,y position and read all the properties.
    - Remove the genie and Place the new genie
    - Set the x,y coordinate and genie properties

    I used this heavily in a project to generate detail pages with a lot of genie instances with properties based on coordinates from a SQL database (sounds familiair Patrick?)
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  • This can also be done using some Graphics Builder Automation (GBA) scripting:
    - You can open a page and loop through every AN.
    - Check if it's a genie. If so, retrieve the x,y position and read all the properties.
    - Remove the genie and Place the new genie
    - Set the x,y coordinate and genie properties

    I used this heavily in a project to generate detail pages with a lot of genie instances with properties based on coordinates from a SQL database (sounds familiair Patrick?)
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