Cannot Edit Schedules in Revit 2019

[Anonymous]

Ever since we updated to Revit 2019 a few weeks ago I have not been able to modify any text parameter values in the cells inside any of my schedules. I can only modify the cells if I go into my families and edit the parameter values there, which takes waaaaaay longer.  It is happening to all my text parameters across all my schedules and families. It is really annoying.

[Anonymous]

This came out with 2019.2:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/EN...

[Anonymous]

Here's the screencast of my original bug report.

1. I start by showing the unhelpful behavior of stretching a cell in the edit view and finding the cell stretched on the sheet layout. Not helpful when trying to read or edit long fields in the schedule view. This should be WYSIWYG.

2. The next event shown is the "Enter" key being the only way to commit changes to type parameters while editing a schedule. You can see that if the user clicks away from the location of the entered text, the changes do not get committed to the cell even though OK was clicked. If you hit Enter instead of clicking away, the change works.

Hopefully this clears up what I meant. Also, I can confirm that this behavior still occurs in Revit 2020.

[Anonymous]

I was having the exact same issue where I couldn't edit any of the cells in my Room Schedule.  Frustrating!  I just discovered that when the schedule was created it was a "Multi-Category" schedule.  I deleted it and created a new schedule designated specifically as a Room Schedule, and the problem went away.  Not sure if your issue is the same, but I thought I'd put it out there.  Good luck!

[Anonymous]

To zoom in on a schedule hold Ctrl and scroll with your mouse wheel (like for a PDF).

[francesh]

2020 is very quirky with editing schedules as well, used to be an absolute breeze in 2018, not having to go into the schedules objects properties at all. What a joy that was! Now have to hit "enter" several times while it complains. Not intuitive. Same with quickly double-clicking the tab to enlarge the window, now its a time consuming "tw" (opposite of "wt" window tile). An extra step to the old keyboard. With AutoCAD every new version was clunkier so their programmers could create work for themselves, don't do that to Revit! Don't fix what's not broken please!

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, this same annoying bug has carried into 2020.  The annoying part is that if you are in the properties panel and enter information and hit Enter, nothing saves.  You have to enter your information, click in another cell, hit apply, then move on.  In the schedules, if you enter information and click in another cell, nothing saves and this weird highlighting happens that you have to click escape to exit.  Both of these functions used to work in earlier versions, the pickiness about how you enter information stared in 2019.  Revit is already a very picky program and now you have added two different ways to do something depending upon where you are working in the program and expect users to remember how to enter information.  Imagine being new to the program!  Wouldn't it just be easier to fix the bug?

[francesh]

The ability to edit schedules was such a godsend in earlier Revits. Also the
ability to double click window tabs to get them to enlarge. Don't change
what works! Who is overseeing your improvement team? Its not a regular user.

[Anonymous]

Yes!  I loved that you could edit everything in the schedules, it made managing the data in Revit so much easier!  

[Anonymous]

I use multi category schedules too!  

HI programmers, this may be a clue to finding the bug!

[adeline_suhadi]

Go to the Edit Family. In edit family window look for Family Type icon (the one with 4 squares), delete the data in the Formula column of the parameter that you wish to be able to edit in your working window.