SCHEDULE QUESTIONS!

[Anonymous]

Hello! I've modified the ADT schedules to represent the information we use
here. I have 3 specific questions if changes I would like to see are able
to be made. I've included a picture of our schedule and properties dialog
for your review.

Note 1: Is there a way to 'automatically' drop a column if all of the value
presented are FALSE? (shrinking the overall width of the schedule table for
us)

Note 2: Is there a way to rotate 'some' of the column header text without
rotating ALL of it? (shrinking the overall height of the schedule table for
us)

Note 3: Is there a way to present a 'combo-list' type box in the property
sets to give a drop-down list of existing values and still allow you to add
a new value (reducing the possibility of mis-matched naming conventions?)

Thank you so much for your thoughts! FYI: Even if you see these as options
for customised programming... I'd love to hear about it, and will try to
tackle it through that route.

One last thought -- are any of these notes available with the latest and
greatest? (that could be my selling point for the higher-ups!)

Thanks again!

Steve

[Anonymous]

1. Consider using a matrix column, rather than individual columns for each possibility, if a variable width schedule is acceptable to you.

2. Upgrade to 2007; this feature is new to the 2007 release.
See Header Overrides [second item] here:
http://architects-desktop.blogspot.com/2006/04/enhanced-property-data-features-in-adt.html

3. Upgrade to 2007; this feature is new to the 2007 release.
See List Definitions described here:
http://architects-desktop.blogspot.com/2006/03/enhanced-property-data-features-in-adt_31.html

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David Koch
Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator

[Anonymous]

David,
First let me thank you for the heads-up on the updates! I attempted the
matrix solution to #1 before sending this out. Here is the issue: Each
Room can have multiple wall materials in it (i.e.: North wall is concrete,
south is gypsum, east is lightweight block, and west is RUBBER.) I knew of
no way to get a matrix to use more than 1 property declaration from the set.
I AM curious about things like this (no way to set up what we do here) and
wonder are WE doing things correctly? Should we consider changing the way
we show information if it doesn't seem to 'fit' within the software? Tough
choices sometimes.
At any rate, if you could comment about note #1, I would appreciate it.

Thank you,
Steve

wrote in message news:5142963@discussion.autodesk.com...
1. Consider using a matrix column, rather than individual columns for each
possibility, if a variable width schedule is acceptable to you.

2. Upgrade to 2007; this feature is new to the 2007 release.
See Header Overrides [second item] here:
http://architects-desktop.blogspot.com/2006/04/enhanced-property-data-features-in-adt.html

3. Upgrade to 2007; this feature is new to the 2007 release.
See List Definitions described here:
http://architects-desktop.blogspot.com/2006/03/enhanced-property-data-features-in-adt_31.html

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David Koch
Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator

[Anonymous]

If you need to distinguish between walls, you would need a separate property for each wall [N, S, E, W]. If you just want to designate all of the materials [or if a single wall has multiple materials], separate the values in the property that is referenced by a matrix column with semicolons.

For example, if you had a wall that had a wood wainscotting to chair rail height and GWB above, entering

WD WSCT;GWB

would add a column for "WD WSCT" and a column for "GWB" to your matrix, and put a mark in both of those columns for that space.

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David Koch
Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator

[Anonymous]

PURE GENIUS!!! That was EXACTLY what I was looking for! I cannot thank
you enough for your contributions to this newsgroup to enable those of us
that are trying to 'catch up' with the rest of the world.

Thank you again.

Steve

wrote in message news:5143444@discussion.autodesk.com...
If you need to distinguish between walls, you would need a separate property
for each wall [N, S, E, W]. If you just want to designate all of the
materials [or if a single wall has multiple materials], separate the values
in the property that is referenced by a matrix column with semicolons.

For example, if you had a wall that had a wood wainscotting to chair rail
height and GWB above, entering

WD WSCT;GWB

would add a column for "WD WSCT" and a column for "GWB" to your matrix, and
put a mark in both of those columns for that space.

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David Koch
Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator