Cannot place user keynote on instance wall

[hunterAZR7A]

Hello,

I have a series of walls in my project that's split into parts and set to a specific material. In one elevation, I can use user keynotes to tag this wall. However, on another elevation, the tag cannot host to the wall. Included are screenshots of my project. The wall isn't pinned, parts visibility is set to "Show Parts", and the wall isn't hidden.

Thanks for any help

[ToanDN]

What is 'Instance wall'? Do you mean you cannot place user keynote on Parts?

[hunterAZR7A]

By instance wall I mean a specific wall in the project. There are multiple instances of walls that're split into parts, and I can place a user keynote on one instance, but not another. In the attached images, one of the walls can host a user keynote, but in another elevation, another wall cannot.

[ToanDN]

Let's be clear.  Is the keynote hosted by Parts or Wall in the view that is working?

[RDAOU]

@hunterAZR7A 

Keynotes are not hosted they are tag that pick up elements in the view and report a certain parameter of that element.

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2. If the Keynote tag is picking up something but simply not being placed you would be receiving a warning saying tags are not visible which I assume it is not your case
3. If you are sure that you are using Material Keynote it should pick up the material of those elements converted to parts (unless you mean something else by Parts...)
4. If you are using Element Keynote, it will not pick up the parts because it needs the original element

In all cases I would make sure that the right keynote is being used and that view settings of that elevation are set to show elements that the Keynote needs to pick ...

[hunterAZR7A]

@ToanDN  I can host the keynote tag to the parts if it's a material tag. Sometimes the keynote number is wrong, but I can change that in its properties. However, I switch to user keynote tags for everything else. I'm still not sure why user keynotes don't work on Parts.

[hunterAZR7A]

@RDAOU My issue was that user keynote tags just wouldn't appear when I hovered over my Parts wall. But you were right about material tags working. They didn't show the correct tag # but I switched it in its properties to display the correct value.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

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@hunterAZR7A wrote:

@RDAOU My issue was that user keynote tags just wouldn't appear when I hovered over my Parts wall. But you were right about material tags working. They didn't show the correct tag # but I switched it in its properties to display the correct value.

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That's why I asked you to verify the working keynotes placed on Parts or Wall.  You can only place Element or User keynotes on categories accepting them.  Parts is not among those categories so the only keynote you can use on parts is Material keynote.

One thing you could do is to create assemblies from parts, then you can place user or element keynote on the assemblies.