Filling

Aspen Graphics provides you with the ability to create complex quote window layouts.  You can set up quote windows with dual column layout, irregular code spacing, and vertical and horizontal code orientation. (Special layouts are particularly useful in setting up quote pages for options analysis.)  

The Fill Down and Fill Right selections in the Quotes Menu (in layout mode) copy the $1 group. These functions are useful in propagating a layout.

For more complex layouts, you will need to use the .FILLDN and .FILLRT commands. These commands are similar to the Fill Down and Fill Right options in the Quotes menu, except that you can specify the group you want to copy, and you can designate a specific number of groups to copy.

If a specific portion of your quote page is set up in column format, you can use the .FILLDN command to fill in certain rows with the same codes as in a row you specify.  The syntax:

.FILLDN <start> <end>

or

.FILLRT <start> <end>

where <start> is the group from which the fill command derives the layout, and <end> is the group at which the fill command stops.

You can use the .FILLDN command without specified variables to fill the entire page with the same codes as those in the principal group ($1).  To fill in the window with the layout of the principal group, you would type:

.FILLDN

or

.FILLRT

and press Enter.  This fills in the remainder of the quote window with the principal group.

You can also specify which code group to fill, and how many rows to create.  For example, if you wanted to fill in rows three through seven with the same layout in the group (row) containing the variable $2, you would type the following:

.FILLDN 2 7

or

.FILLRT 2 7

and press Enter.  This would fill in rows three through seven with the same codes as those in row two, and change the variables in each of those rows to $3, $4, $5, $6, and $7, respectively.