Modify block in paper space will in model space

I'm having a hard time thinking today and it's not even Friday.

I have selected all occurrences of a block in the drawing - 2 in model space and 1 each in 2 layout tabs.
I know how cycle through the blocks to update an attribute for all the blocks in model space, but I can't think of how to modify the blocks in paper space without having to change focus to the layout tabs.

Thank in advance, I know this is an easy one...

 

Does (vla-get-block <layout object>) get you
pointed in the correct direction?

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message I'm having a hard time thinking today and it's not even Friday.

I have selected all occurrences of a block in the drawing - 2 in model space
and 1 each in 2 layout tabs.
I know how cycle through the blocks to update an attribute for all the
blocks in model space, but I can't think of how to modify the blocks in
paper space without having to change focus to the layout tabs.

Thank in advance, I know this is an easy one...

 

Something like this....
(defun edit_att (blkname att_tag str)
(vl-load-com)
(ssget "x" (list '(0 . "INSERT")(cons 2 blkname)'(66 . 1)))
(vlax-for item (vla-get-activeselectionset
(vla-get-activedocument
(vlax-get-acad-object)))
(foreach att (vlax-safearray->list (vlax-variant-value
(vla-getattributes item)))
(if (= att_tag (vla-get-tagstring att))
(vla-put-textstring att str)
)
)
)
)

Usage: (edit_att "blockname" "tag of attribute to edit" "new text")
Sample with my block name being "TDG" and an attribute with a defined Tag of
"PROJECT":
(edit_att "TDG" "PROJECT" "BIG TEST")

HTH,
Jeff

message I'm having a hard time thinking today and it's not even Friday.

I have selected all occurrences of a block in the drawing - 2 in model space
and 1 each in 2 layout tabs.
I know how cycle through the blocks to update an attribute for all the
blocks in model space, but I can't think of how to modify the blocks in
paper space without having to change focus to the layout tabs.

Thank in advance, I know this is an easy one...