It would require some testing, but I might not be wrong while just guessing now, that the table when being created, and when symbols are being added to it for the first time, requires all the full paths to be stated. That should be applied if the symbols are not in the symbol gallery of the drawing to which tables's the symbols are being added.
Let's just better put it this way:
- If you already have the required symbols in the symbol gallery of the drawing where you create a table or a note with these symbols then the syntax could work like this: &sym(SYMBOL_NAME)
- If you don't then you should state the full path for a note, and have the symbol file (*.sym) on that stated path. Once the symbol is loaded into symbol gallery, which is what the full path does, then you can move the symbol on your disk elsewhere, and the drawing will remember that symbol. Or open that drawing on someone else's comp.
- With tables it's a little different, because the table when created, and saved into *.tbl file, remembers the symbols that have been inserted in there. So even when it also remembers the full paths which it was created with, these paths to symbols are no longer relevant for that table. This table from *.tbl file will always bring all the symbols it carries into the drawing's symbol gallery.
Anyway, Tom, I think you shouldn't really be worried about these things, and just simply use full paths everytime, which is what you can have saved in a text note, that you can then load into a drawing easily with a mapkey. You can even have a mapkey to type in the whole thing for you.
I'll send you that table via email.
