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The only thing I'm aware of that automatically updates is the file_timestamp_format however I haven't really used it so I'm not sure what control you have over its position on a plot.
The other thing to be aware of is the dates on a drawing shouldn't be changing if you are going by standard (which ProE does and &todays_date follows), at least in the US, although I'm aware it depends on what requirements youremployer has for things that should be on a drawing.
It will update when you add the format to a drawing if it is in a table cell but it does not update the date from day to day which is what I understood to be the issue. In this way it does not work the same as other parameters.
When &todays_date is in an *.frm file it must be in a table cell to update when put on a drawing. If you are expecting it to update from day to day it doesn't, this then goes back to what I wrote before. In a format if you type &todays_date in a note it gets converted to plain text and &todays_date is displayed it is no longer a parametric. Take a look at a table cell or note on a drawing where you have typed in &todays_date and have gotten a date. When you edit the properties of the cell or note you see the date not the &todays_date parameter.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />
Also here is the description from the HELP documentation:
Displays a drawing label indicating the date on which the note was created in the form dd-mm-yy (for example, 2-Jan-92). You can edit it as any other nonparametric note, using Text Line or Full Note. If you include this symbol in a format table, the system evaluates it when it copies the format into the drawing.
I use a mapkey that changes any text string to &todays_date which gets evaluated immediately and becomes the date. Very handy for changing the date on a revised drawing.
Even if you import a DXF you still need to create a table as I believe everything is converted to draft entities. By table I mean a table from the Table menu in the picture you show not just drawing lines to create a table.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding what you're doing or expecting but fell like we are getting conflicting information as to what you're expecting to see. From your last statement it sounds as if you expect the parameters to get evaluated in the frm file. They don't, they are evaluated when you put the frm in a drw.
The format can be changed by setting the todays_date_note_format in the config.pro. The month, day, and year can be in any order and there are a few options for the display of month and year.
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