Distribute customized property pane layouts by using a project, firm, or environment folder

Tekla Structures
2023
Tekla Structures

Distribute customized property pane layouts by using a project, firm, or environment folder

Administrators can distribute the customized property pane layouts to other users in the company by placing the PropertyTemplates.xml property pane layout file in the PropertyRepository\Templates folder in a project, firm, or environment folder.

For example, you can create company property pane layouts and save them in the firm folder. These property panes are available in the Tekla Structures user interface for all users who use the same firm folder.

Add a property pane layout file in a project, firm, or environment folder

  1. In the Property pane editor, create the property pane layouts that you want to share.

    The property pane layouts are saved in the PropertyTemplates.xml file, in the ..\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Trimble\Tekla Structures\<version>\UI\PropertyTemplates folder.

    If you cannot find the folder, ensure that you are able to view the hidden files and folders on your computer.

  2. In your company's project folder or firm folder, or in the system folder, create a folder named PropertyRepository\Templates.
  3. Copy the PropertyTemplates.xml file to the PropertyRepository\Templates folder.
  4. Restart Tekla Structures.

Search order of customized property pane layout files

The PropertyTemplates.xml file contains all the property pane layouts for different object types. The property pane layouts for different object types are treated separately. For example, Tekla Structures can read the property pane layout for steel beam from a different location than the property pane layout for steel column.

If different object types are defined in different folder locations, the definitions are combined. If the same object type is defined differently in different folder locations, the definition that is higher in the search order is used.

The property pane layout in the ..\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Trimble\Tekla Structures\<version>\UI\PropertyTemplates\ folder has the highest priority, and after that Tekla Structures uses the default search order.

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