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Zone Schedules....

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Anonymous
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Zone Schedules....

OK this is driving me absolutly nuts this morning. A cpl months ago i
created a schedule based off of Zones and it was great now i can't remember
for the life of me how i did it. Let me explain.....

I have a large building and i'm using Zones to group my spaces into their
appropriate departments. Then i'd like to schedule the Zone (department)
and have it list for me all the rooms in that department. I have the spaces
all set and they schedule nicely by themselves. I've added a zone and
atached the spaces to it for it's department. Now when i create a schedule
and assign it to Zones i have no schedule data to list or anything. What am
i missing here?

I basically want to use this to run a schedule on all zones and have it spit
out all spaces associated with that zone (department) so we can check it
with our program and even get department square footages.

Thanks everyone.....
John Gray
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David_W_Koch
in reply to: Anonymous

Retrieving the file(s) from a few months back and reverse engineering the schedules you created there would be the easiest way to reproduce that same effect again. If that is not possible, I can offer some thoughts that might help you remember what you did.

I use a pre-Zone release for day-to-day "real" work, so I am not terribly familiar with Zones. To what objects does your current Schedule Table Style apply? If Zones only, do your Zones have the Property Sets referenced by the Schedule Table columns attached?

Zones have several useful automatic properties that can aggregate certain data (like area) for the Spaces and Zones attached to them, but they do not include all of the data from the attached Spaces (or Zones), so if your previous Schedule Table included each Space, as well as each Zone, then the Schedule Table Style must have applied to both Spaces and Zones.

There is not a way to get a subtotal for a subgroup of Spaces in a Schedule Table directly. If you were generating totals by department, then perhaps you were scheduling each department in a separate Schedule Table and totalling the area column in each separate schedule. Or, you might have come up with a clever way to include both Spaces and Zones, and sorted them such that each Department's Spaces were followed by that Department's Zone, and by cleverly selecting automatic properties that have sources in both Spaces and Zones, made it appear that the Department's Space areas were subtotalled on the Department's Zone line.

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David Koch
Using ADT 2004 at work; access to 2005-2009 at home


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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous


David thank you for the quick responce.... 
I've looked for the old file and for the life of me can't find it
anywere..ofcourse.  The example i was talking about did use seperate
schedules.  So i'm thinking it might have something to do with that i need
some PSD's that are tied to the zones or something.  I will look into it
more...  I know one reason i did like it is that is wouldn't list multiple
spaces of the same name.  I will look into it more and see what i can
figure out....  thanks again....

 

 

 

 


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Retrieving
the file(s) from a few months back and reverse engineering the schedules you
created there would be the easiest way to reproduce that same effect again. If
that is not possible, I can offer some thoughts that might help you remember
what you did.

I use a pre-Zone release for day-to-day "real" work, so I
am not terribly familiar with Zones. To what objects does your current
Schedule Table Style apply? If Zones only, do your Zones have the Property
Sets referenced by the Schedule Table columns attached?

Zones have
several useful automatic properties that can aggregate certain data (like
area) for the Spaces and Zones attached to them, but they do not include all
of the data from the attached Spaces (or Zones), so if your previous Schedule
Table included each Space, as well as each Zone, then the Schedule Table Style
must have applied to both Spaces and Zones.

There is not a way to get a
subtotal for a subgroup of Spaces in a Schedule Table directly. If you were
generating totals by department, then perhaps you were scheduling each
department in a separate Schedule Table and totalling the area column in each
separate schedule. Or, you might have come up with a clever way to include
both Spaces and Zones, and sorted them such that each Department's Spaces were
followed by that Department's Zone, and by cleverly selecting automatic
properties that have sources in both Spaces and Zones, made it appear that the
Department's Space areas were subtotalled on the Department's Zone
line.

--

David Koch
Using ADT 2004 at work; access to 2005-2009 at home

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WStu
in reply to: Anonymous

Is it possible to create a cell in a Zone schedule that is filled in with the color of the zone?

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