Position Manager

The Position Manager organizes all the available position names in your show document. It also sets the sort order of your positions. You can use the Position Manager to change the sort order of the position names, which is important for printed paperwork like instrument schedules and other reports that use the Position field. The order of position names is also used for general sorting in the Data view and the order in which positions appear in the Flight Case.

The Position Manager is accessible from the Properties window of a hang structure and from the Positions command in the Edit menu.

To view and edit entries in the position manager
  1. From the Managers menu, choose Positions.

Note: The ellipsis button [...] on the Hang Structure page of a pipe’s or truss’ properties will also open the Position Manager.

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  1. Click New.
  2. Type the name of the new position, and then click OK.
  3. To modify the name of a position, select the position, and then click Rename.
  4. Type the new name, and then click OK.
  5. To remove a position name, select the name, and then click Remove. Removing the position name does not delete the hang structure. Rather the hang structure removes its association with the position name.
  6. Floor positions with unique names can be created in the Position Manager. To assign a position name as a floor position available for fixtures that are inserted on the floor, select the position(s) and click the Floor checkbox.
  7. To reorder the position names in the list, select the name of the position you want to move. Click Up or Down to move the name in the list.
  8. Select the Sort Positions Alphabetically checkbox to sort the position names in alphabetical order.
  9. If you are in a plot view and want to determine what a particular position references, click Select. If the plot view is open (and the correct layers are marked editable), the hang structures that use that position name are selected. To select more than one position, press CTRL, and then click the position.

Note: The list will set the order of the Position Names listed in the Spreadsheets and Reports.

  1. Click OK to close the Position Manager.