SetProjectConstant doesn't work

[jimflip]

Essentially DocumentGenerator.SetProjectConstant() doesn't work and appears to have been broken for many years.
If I'm wrong please advise how to use it so it actually works, rather than me trying to second guess.

If I'm right, why has this not been resolved, seems a fairly basic software bug and raises a lot of concerns about the maintenance of this product?

[Geert Bellekens]

Have you reported a bug?
Maybe no-one ever did, and the bug went unnoticed all that time.

Geert

[qwerty]

What Geert said. EA has a zoo of bugs being alive since many years. Many of them known and being avoided (they won't be fixed...) others never made it to the surface (or if so the experienced EA user immediately looks for an alternative way).

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[jimflip]

Basically we all pay for software riddled with bugs, and the customer has to find and report obvious issues and work around them as we have no confidence in the vendor...

What makes this particularly ironic its software use by architects such as myself who avoid vendors like this like the plague in the work we use this software for!

As for not reporting the bug, it's not just this one bug right, nearly everything I touch has some issue, quirk, side effect or work around, there is a distinctive smell that I suspect most here know well enough from being in the software industry for a long time.

[qwerty]

No software is free of bugs. But actually I'm using quite a few which work extremely good. And: reported bugs are taken care of. That had been the case with EA in the beginning but from (IIRC) V6 on money took over. For years I had hope the situation would improve. Well, it was only a dream. I mostly gave up playing Cassandra.

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[marc.zeller]

Dear all,

do you know if the bug is meanwhile solved? It seems that SetProjectConstant is removed in EA 17.1. Is there another way to set project contstants before generating a report via the C# API?

Regards,
Marc