Is it possible to make a note with automatic update date?

Greetings:

I would like to make a preliminary with a date note (for instance
PRELIMINARY YY/MM/DD) on a drawing in such a way that every time I open
it up; it will put todays date. Is this possible? I try to make a
note PRELIMINARY &DATE but it doesn't work.

Thanks for your time and help.

John

 

&todays_date (lower case) is the system parameter which picks up the current date
and puts it in a note. If you do this in a drawing, it picks up the date and
enters it, in the note, as text ~ as fixed as text. To make it, in some sense,
variable, you must put &todays_date in a format table, where it is preserved as a
parameter and not converted to the string literal equivalent. But even in a
format, it is, to some extent, fixed. To pick up a new date, you must remove the
format or change to a different one and then place your format (C, D, E) from
disk. As stored in the drawing or as brought into memory brings with it the old
value for &todays_date. If you change from C to D, this forces it to read anew
from the disk. Now the old C is purged from memory so reading C from disk gets you
the virgin, new &todays_date value. Most cumbersome and definitely NOT automatic.

David Janes