Oops, yeah, meant Description. I'm using ACA2008. For each of my space
objects, I drop down the list and select the name of the space. I guess
what I'll do is just leave it how I have it, where I have to switch to
the Extended Data tab and type the room name into a manual PSD slot.
IIRC, you have a history in medical. Do you have any good methods for
exporting your data from the actual design into any sort of
architectural space program?
What I had intended to do was this:
Assign each space its appropriate name by selecting from the list.
Create a zone template for each department.
Attach each space to the appropriate zone in the tree.
Export the zone data using the SpaceEvaluation command, to place data
into a spreadsheet (a separate tab for each department). In the
predesign architectural space program spreadsheet, we have a place to
enter "actual designed" data. What I would like to do is point these
cells to read from the appropriate cells on the tabs that contain the
exported information. To do this, that information has to *always*
export to the same cell, so I have to completely build out the zone
template in advance. I also found that if I export directly to a
spreadsheet, it shifts the data since if there are multiple spaces of
the same name it creates another entry for each one in addition to the
total area of that room type, when all I need is the total area,
reported once. I resolved this by exporting first to a text file, then
inserting (space delimited) into a spreadsheet. So far it seems like it
will work.
Any ideas? Advice?
David_W._Koch wrote:
> "In the List style there is a Properties section for each name in the list."
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> By "Properties section" do you mean Description? If not, what version are you using? (I am looking at 2008 at the moment, and do not see a way to attach a "property" from a Property Set to a List Definition item.)
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> I do not see an easy way to access the description of the List item chosen for a particular Space Name. You can get the List Definition Item from the Name automatic property source for Spaces. If the name of a List Definition assigned to a Space Style as well as List Definitions and their Descriptions are accessible to VBScript in a Formula property, you might be able to create a Formula property that steps through the items in the List Definition assigned to the style of the current Space until a match with the Name property was found, and then return the associated Description. That is a lot of "ifs" and, if possible, would require knowing where all that stuff is in the object model.
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> David Koch
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