Wish for better linking and relinking of excel files in Rules

[amh_Caspar]

The method for relinking excel files to rules is cumbersome. It’s sort of ok if you just need to do it once - unlink the file, delete the rows of data, import new file.
However if you want to reuse rules from previous projects and therefore need to update all the linked files it’s very tedious. Surely there should be a better way to just change the source of the file without having to go through the three steps of unlink, delete and import for every single rule. I have about 30-40 rules which all use information from the same excel file but this excel file has a different file path for different projects. Please Solibri improve this workflow!!

[jakub.rusin]

Hey @amh_Caspar !

Are you moving the Excel file to the new location along with the new project? Or is the file staying in the same place?

[amh_Caspar]

We have our ruleset templates saved in a central location. We have an example new project folder which contains the source excel file also saved in a central location.
Usually, when we setup a new project we copy the new project folder to it’s new location and name it.
We then open our ruleset template in the project solibri model and save the ruleset as a new ruleset with the new project parameters in the project folder. We then need to relink all the rules to the excel file.