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Hi, that would be absolutely brilliant!

Only to give one example from a previous experience in case it helps Autodesk:

 

The goal was be to be able to control door Ironmongery visibility parameters on the door families (such as kick and push plate; lever, pull handle and/or push bar; euro lock, thumb turn or occupancy signage; WC and/or statutory signage, etc) through the Ironmongery Set (key) schedule, which could even be linked to an external excel file.

 

 

 

In the beginning it was ok to control it through door schedules but once the number of doors on the project surpassed the couple of thousands then it became a bit harder to handle it. I initially had the idea to create a few basic hardware sets inside the family with the ability to override it by instance if needed (see image), but then the number of sets started increasing rapidly and suddenly that approach was no longer enough.

 

Door family parameters table.JPGI then considered creating dummy "yes/no" text parameters on the key schedule (only parameter type allowed) and then match the family parameters to them through dynamo, but it would became too messy down the road, ending up being a bigger problem than actually started with.

 

If we had the power to control more than "dummy" text parameters on a family through a key schedule, that would be powerful! Those specific parameters could then all be instance so to avoid conflicts, not a problem. But ideally type would override type and instance would override instance. It could work as sort of a "Global Parameters Set" with "sub-parameters" associated to it.

 

Or else to be able to have those "parameter sets" or key schedules inside the families to control a set of parameters at once would also be great and save huge time...

 

I hope I made any sense.... :cara_asombrada: