More about attributes...

[leonid.shevlyakov]

Hi,

More work with Docs so more to share.

Custom attributes are a good thing, I like functionality of date picker, whoever did it is a good man.

I was already dropping few lines on attributes limitations to delete them and too narrow band to manually adjust column width.

It can be more convenient if by double clicking on divider we can have columns to adjust the width to max length of the longest entry in the column.

also could be good to have decreased minimum width of the column. I.e. Currently it is minimum about 15 characters. But I have Rev. Column that uses 2-3 symbols so it is quite a waste of screen space to have it 15 characters wide. As a minimum should be auto distribution mode and manual customisation when I can set width for all columns and that will be remembered (per user).

Also need to be able to select position of the attributes, I.e. move attribute up or down on the list. I.e. I want to see revision and its date right after title of the drawing and to hide document name, file name, etc. Currently it is impossible.

[leonid.shevlyakov]

Opps, forgot to add one thing. I use custom attribute Trades (or Department). It could be great if I i.e. all electrical drawings lines can be conditionally (on attribute name) formatted to let us say blue color (selected during customization), piping to red, ventilation to green and so on.

So it will be faster to navigate to the plans of the particular trade.

[brian.kost]

Hi Leonid,

These are both great ideas for feature enhancements to BIM 360 Docs. I'd like to recommend that you add them to the "BIM 360 Ideas" page so that they may be considered for inclusion in a future release of the program. The Ideas page is an excellent resource to BIM 360 community members as it provides the ability to suggest and track the progress of an idea after it has been submitted.

We greatly appreciate any feedback that will help to improve your experience with this and other Autodesk products.

Regards,

Brian

[joan_allen · Accepted solution]

Hi Leonid,

Thanks for taking the time to describe your workflow and suggestions for improving attributes.  We will take these into consideration for future updates.

Best Regards,

Joan Allen

Sr. Product Manager, BIM 360 Docs

[ShenielSen]

hi there, 

rearranging of attributes is pretty important to us as well. also if there would be a way to rearrange for all projects, like a default layout. similar to the new default roles system. 

custom attributes are great.  allows us to have revision captured with bim 360 smart OCR capabilities. However it goes way at the end of the columns.  as the core uses of drawings are our site team, using laptops and surface tablets. it does not show easily.  rearranging what import will make the software far more usable for us.