I want create a diagram that will show me how much memory a blade chassis has by just dragging a blade object that has a custom field containing the memory amount into a container.

For example:  I create a container called "Blade Chassis".  I create a rectangle called Blade Server,  add a custom field called Memory and assign it 256.   I create 5 duplicates of the is rectangle,  so now I have 6 blade server objects each with 256 (GB) memory.   I want to drag and drop them into the Blade Chassis Container and have a field that displays the total amount of blade memory memory based on the Blade Server rectangles in the container.

How would I go about doing this?  Ultimately,  I would like to expand this to make the fields dynamic in that I would change all Blade Server memory fields to a specific number and watch it update the container field or associate cost to the blades and watch it update the Chassis container.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

-MattG

Matt,

Chris Hopkins wrote an interesting article on his blog on how to do this with container.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chhopkin/archive/2011/06/09/shapes-that-calculate-based-on-their-container.aspx

By the way technically your engineered chasis shape is not a container.

hth,

al