Notes and Shapescript

[bacz]

Hi,
I find myself frequently creating a note, having to convert it to a pin, changing the border to red, changing the font to size 18 for a "Pain point note"
I find myself frequently creating a note, having to convert it to a pin, changing the border to blue, changing the font size to 18 for a "FeatureNote"
Repeat - green for opportunity

( don't want to create other elements, just informal notes for the purpose of 1 diagram)
I have spent some time with Shapescript, and tried to make an element that does this based upon the note element. I cannot get the pin type, so I had to reproduce it in a complex, not so nice way with shapes, only thing left is I want to increase the font size.

I have saw in commentary years old that this cannot be done, can it be done now in 2018? If not are there any options at all?
If not, can we make font sizes programmable please Sparx? Such an elementary request.

(Also are we sure there is no way to change the note appearance to a pin?)

[Geert Bellekens]

An alternative could be to write a little script and use the standard shapes.

Geert

[qwerty]

What do you mean by "convert note to pin"?

q,

[Glassboy]

What do you mean by "convert note to pin"?

A note has the following appearances

• Standard
• memo
• memo style 2
• pin
• sticky
• paperclip

[Eve]

I find myself frequently creating a note, having to convert it to a pin, changing the border to red, changing the font to size 18 for a "Pain point note"
I find myself frequently creating a note, having to convert it to a pin, changing the border to blue, changing the font size to 18 for a "FeatureNote"
Repeat - green for opportunity

Easiest way to do this is to define the basic notes in one place, then copy, paste as new where you want to use them.

I have saw in commentary years old that this cannot be done, can it be done now in 2018? If not are there any options at all?
If not, can we make font sizes programmable please Sparx? Such an elementary request.

No, it's not there and it's not coming because we don't want shape scripts overriding user font settings.

[qwerty]

A note has the following appearances...

Huh. I never was aware of that 

q.

[Geert Bellekens]

A note has the following appearances...

Huh. I never was aware of that 

q.

Was introduced in v13 or v13.5 I think.

Geert

[bacz]

Hi Everyone
Thanks for your feeback.
I have tried the cut and paste of the pin types, but it looses colour, or shape or something (I forget), so still requires manual intervention.
This was of particular interest from Sparks "No, it's not there and it's not coming because we don't want shape scripts overriding user font settings."

Is there anyway then you can enhance notes to keep the current set characteristics (colour, fontsize, pin etc.) so when you cut and paste them they replicate?
It seems a bit of a pain having to write a shapescript anyway to do such basic stuff?

Please 
When you are adding lots of notes to diagrams, and want to keep them consistent, it is a royal pain

[Geert Bellekens]

Have you tried the template package?
That might be exactly what you are after.

Geert