topic Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type" in Revit Architecture Forum

Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:53:47 GMT

I am in a high school and students are standard users on Windows 10 (1803 x64) computers.

Revit is the 2020 x64 bit version.

When I open Revit as me (a local administrator):

I put in a wall, then install a door. I click on "edit type", then "load", I am pretty sure I get everything I need.

When I open Revit as a student (a standard user):

I put in a wall, then install a door. I click on "edit type", then "load", I get a message........operation has been cancelled due to restrictions...

District policy requires students to be users on workstations. We also cannot use shared accounts, such as a generic local administrator account that's just for students.

Is there a setting or configuration that can be adjusted to make the feature work for a standard user?

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

dzanta — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:40:22 GMT

Try the following:

- Install software as Administrator logged in with admin rights

- run software to ensure it works fine

- log in to workstation as end user (student) who has admin rights

- run software to ensure it works fine

- log out of workstation as student/end user....

- change permission of end user/student to non-admin

- log out/in with updated account rights

- run software to ensure it still works properly

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:45:03 GMT

Thank you for your reply, but that is not a solution in this case.

Revit is installed administratively via an SCCM deployment.

Each student has their own local profile as we are an Active Directory
environment.

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

dzanta — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:49:57 GMT

for domain users...it could be necessary to start the program one time with right-click and Run As Administrator to set all options of the program

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 18:00:03 GMT

Thank you for the reply, dzanta, but the "Run As Administrator" solution
you suggest is not feasible due to the number of students, student
profiles, and workstations. Is this the only solution that AutoDesk has for
this particular Revit feature working for a standard user?

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

RobDraw — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:09:33 GMT

Could this be due to permissions to access the folder?

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 13:56:03 GMT

Thank you, RobDraw. Permissions to access what specific folder? What should
the permissions be set to? Revit has been installed with all default
settings.

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

RobDraw — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:04:26 GMT

I'm assuming that Revit is referring to the Windows security permissions assigned to the folder where the family resides. Sorry, I thought you would know what I was talking about as the administrator.

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:26:24 GMT

RobDraw, as you should be aware, AutoDesk software places
numerous files and folders in a variety of locations. I'm requesting
additional detail regarding your very general suggestion to check folder
permissions. I'm on here asking for help because I don't know how to
resolve this issue. You response of "I thought you would know what I was
talking about as the administrator" is unhelpful and unprofessional.
Belittling someone who're on here asking for help... cute.

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

RobDraw — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:46:56 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
RobDraw, as you should be aware, AutoDesk software places
numerous files and folders in a variety of locations. I'm requesting
additional detail regarding your very general suggestion to check folder
permissions. I'm on here asking for help because I don't know how to
resolve this issue. You response of "I thought you would know what I was
talking about as the administrator" is unhelpful and unprofessional.
Belittling someone who're on here asking for help... cute.

You didn't ask which folder. I was assuming that you knew where the door family was located. Sorry I offended, I assumed that you had some basic knowledge about Revit.

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:55:03 GMT

@RobDraw wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
RobDraw, as you should be aware, AutoDesk software places
numerous files and folders in a variety of locations. I'm requesting
additional detail regarding your very general suggestion to check folder
permissions. I'm on here asking for help because I don't know how to
resolve this issue. You response of "I thought you would know what I was
talking about as the administrator" is unhelpful and unprofessional.
Belittling someone who're on here asking for help... cute.

You didn't ask which folder. I was assuming that you knew where the door family was located. Sorry I offended, I assumed that you had some basic knowledge about Revit.

Yet you continue to offend and continue to not help. Thank you.

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

RobDraw — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:11:29 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Yet you continue to offend and continue to not help. Thank you.

Look, you're taking this too personally. Yes, I am being brief but it's not to offend or belittle. If you had this basic knowledge, my comments would not be offending you. I'm sorry, but your posts seem to suggest that you have a working knowledge of computers and Revit and don't need step by step instructions. If you had said that you know nothing about this stuff, my responses would have been much different.

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:32:00 GMT

I'm on here asking for help and all I did was ask which specific folders
you were referring to and what the permission setting should be. You told
me I should know what you're talking about if I'm really an admin or Revit
user. Look. Either you know and are refusing to provide the detail I
politely asked for, or you don't know what you're talking about. Which
is it?

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

RobDraw — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:39:41 GMT

Do I really need to tell you again that it would be the Windows security permissions for the folder that the door family resides in? If you don't know what I am referring to, you might not want to be messing around with this stuff. Get an IT person and someone that is familiar with your Revit installation to give you a hand before you mess things up.

I'm not even sure it is the solution.

Good luck!

Re: Student Users Error Message with "Edit Type"

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 15:51:03 GMT

I'm posting on here because we don't have such a person, but thank you for
your help anyways. I'll track down the folder, since you're not sure where
it is, and then inspect the permission set, and not know what to set them
to or even if they need to be adjusted. Good luck indeed.