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Family Editor - prompting on existing Family Parameters while typing formulas

Imagine Revit prompts you on the names of existing Family Parameters inside your family while you are typing your fancy formula. The same or similar way as advanced text editors or programming IDEs work - see Notepad++, SharpDevelop or Visual Studio for reference.

If you want to use an existing parameter name you could select it using arrows and TAB while you type.

 

That would speed up content development and make it a lot easier! And less error pop-ups.

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Participant
Participant

I agree. Autocomplete (with some grace for spelling errors/capitalization) would definitely make intelligent family design more intelligent, as well as greatly reduce the learning curve.

It could also include suggestions for names of lookup tables and column names (when in a size_lookup formula), unit types for suggested parameters and filter on parameters of applicable types only, or demonstrate the use of a mathematical or logical function.

Contributor
Contributor

Would be great! I voted

Anonymous

Super idea, this would help developers a lot and also save time developing.

Community Visitor
Community Visitor

This would absolutely be useful and make it easier to create formulas with dependencies.

Advocate
Advocate
@Clogboy82 wrote:

unit types for suggested parameters and filter on parameters of applicable types only, or demonstrate the use of a mathematical or logical function.


Maybe prompting valid typed parameters only wouldn't be the best idea - you can often adjust type, for instance turn length into number or vice versa.

Syntax prompting would be great for people occasionally working with formulas. Why they haven't come up with it yet?

Enthusiast
Enthusiast

@adam.krug Like this idea.  A good partner idea would be to give the option to specify an abbreviated name for parameters with long names.  Frequently parameters that come from a shared parameter library can be lengthy, making sitting through formuli difficult.