renaming place icons

[kwg06516]

Is there no provision for renaming the place icons in the Open dialog?  I'm not sure what Edit Places does.  It contains our standard libraries for families and templates.

I ask because in our office each project gets a directory of folders and they all use the same name for the Revit files.  If I have more than one project on my desk I'm faced with several icons with the same name and no way to tell them appart.

Thanks

[David_W_Koch]

It does not appear that Revit allows renaming the icons, like AutoCAD does.

[jkarben]

You can name them if you add them through Revit's Options > File Locations > Places

[kwg06516]

That didn't put anything in the sidebar, unless a restart is required. 

[David_W_Koch]

Strange.  I just tried it in Revit 2014, and the folder I added in the Options dialog as directed above by @jkarben now appears in the Open dialog, custom name and all, without having to restart the program.

[kwg06516]

That appears to work for local directories on my machine, and it does happen instantaneously, but networked drives are another matter.  One drive, our resource server for families, templates and standards works fine.  Our file server for projects however does not.  If I create a place for a local or resource folder and redefine the path to the file server I still get the original link when I click on the place icon.  If I create a place from scratch it doesn't appear at all. There's probably some security issue or subtle difference between the servers that's preventing me from defining a path via Edit Places, which wouldn't be a problem if I could just rename the icons!  Watch this never change.

[chrisplyler]

Is the path to a mapped drive?

[David_W_Koch]

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@Anonymous wrote:

That appears to work for local directories on my machine, and it does happen instantaneously, but networked drives are another matter.  One drive, our resource server for families, templates and standards works fine.  Our file server for projects however does not.  If I create a place for a local or resource folder and redefine the path to the file server I still get the original link when I click on the place icon.  If I create a place from scratch it doesn't appear at all. There's probably some security issue or subtle difference between the servers that's preventing me from defining a path via Edit Places, which wouldn't be a problem if I could just rename the icons!  Watch this never change.

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Perhaps you are right about security/permissions.  I was able to create two Places referencing two different network folders, one using a drive-letter reference and one going through our domain path, and both worked.  I do have write privledges to both of those folders.