Color Scheme Value Change?

[jesser]

I created a color scheme based on the Department parameter.  I've named them accordingly and assigned colors to my liking.  I've created Depatment types for Circulation, Classroom, Core, Elevator, and so on.  Now I want to change the value of Classroom to Student / Instructional.  I can't seem to change the value with in the editing dialog for the Color Scheme.  Also when I change on of the Departments to the new name it creates another color and value. 

How do I change the name of a value once placed?

Jesse

[Alfredo_Medina · Accepted solution]

It is not possible to rename those names. You can remove them (with the "-" icon) if there are not any elements associated with that name yet. But no "rename". It's been mentioned as a wish list item.

[jesser]

Thank you for your reply.

I second the item to the wishlist then as it would be great to have the flexibility to change your mind on name of a color scheme value. 

[mhans_usa]

It's 2014, don't they listen to us? How hard can that be?

[morana.medved]

You can change names in the color scheme by creating a schedule of the areas in your particular scheme, and then changing the names in the schedule.  You will have to go into the color scheme afterwards to reassign the colors, but that usually takes less time than renaming each area independently on the plan.  Don't forget to sort the schedule by name and not itemize every instance, so you can change all areas with the same name at once.

[Keith_Wilkinson]

This doesn't really help.  

I'm currently looking at adding color schemes to our template files, but if you don't know the names of say the departments beforehand you can't do this.  What we need is to be able to assign placeholders and then adjust them as required for a particular project.  

I wouldn't mind so much if we could have our own standard colour palette but that's not possible at present - all I'm looking for here is to cut down on some wasted time on each project so that we can focus on stuff that matters... 

[Anonymous]

 In case this is still an issue for anyone.  I added the new values into the colour scheme and substituted them into the position of the values I want to change. Then in the scheduling of these areas, I sort by the number assigned to the area in its properties tab ( congruent with the colour scheme ).  In my case, I hide the numbers column in the schedule afterwards.  

 The old values are still present in the colour scheme, just that they are at the bottom of the list. If there are any changes to these values, this list will grow .. which is annoying. In some cases, I brake down the colour scheme into shorter lists ( level 0 - east wing / west wing, etc..), create separate colour scheme lists so that I can remove the titles from the colour legends and juxtapose the pieces of each legend in the layout into a single legend, Level 0 in the example above. 

[fwilmers]

THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION!!!! WTF  ITS ALMOST 2022

[mhironymous]

I REALLY DON'T GET WHY THESE ARE FIXED VALUE NAMES.

[mark.gilman]

The names of an Area COLOR SCHEME can be edited indirectly by placing AREAS on a plan view.  Then edit the NAME in the Identity Data category of Properties for each AREA.  The NAME for each placed area then shows up in the Color Scheme and can be scheduled accordingly.

[anirudhUJGEK]

2023 now. Still can't change them. 

[jesser]

Sorry for the long, but hopefully helpful rant.
Just to bring this discussion back to the root of the issue.  I will assume most who will post on this topic  DO understand how to create, edit, utilize schedules and sorting to more efficiently make large quantities of changes when modifying a parameter which is being colored by a scheme.  None of that was ever the issue here.  The issue is SIMPLE.  Why can we NOT change a room or area's parametric value in the color scheme dialog box.  I know HOW to manage it with the current system, but I am not willing to accept it as the best way it COULD BE. 

Scenario:  We have created an existing program plan for a 300,000sf school building.  We have colored the hundreds of rooms by utilizing the Department parameter within the Room properties.  After creating the plan and assigning each room the Department title, the owner informs us that one of the department title is not the correct title.  WHY IN THE WORLD can we not change that title in the color scheme and have it correctly modify EVERY room's department parameter value?  I don't need to hear all the ways of how to make it work with the current setup, Trust us, WE KNOW.  We want to be able to make the change in the color scheme AND keep the color. 

Until then we will continue to sort working room schedules by the parameter being colored and not "Itemize every Instance" so that we can in one single typing action change the Parameter input, then open the color scheme and modify the NEW assigned color to the exact same group of rooms, such that it matches the color we've already assigned to that group(which is no longer applied to those rooms), just under a different now not being used parameter value, which we now have to delete to remove from the color scheme. 

Is this is a HUGE time sensitive deal?  Not really, but it also doesn't seem like a major change to make this process actually work well in a design helpful way. 

[rayketchman]

What if my subtract button is also greyed out and can't remove the values? I can only add more values

[jesser]

@rayketchman

If your subtract button is greyed out that indicates you have elements that are assigned that parameter value, therefore you cannot delete that value.  You must reassign any value to another before being able to delete a parameter value.  If you see a "not placed" next to a value you are able to "subtract" that value from the scheme. 

Hopefully that helps.

[l.gu]

11 year later and it still doesn't work. 

[NbyrneFVLWA]

The Solution I found was to select all the rooms with the relevant parameter using a schedule. 

• Create a room schedule
• Add the parameter you want to change, in this case Department. 
• Have two window open and put the schedule off to the side
• Sort the schedule and selected all the rooms of a single type, so if you wanted to change Type 1 to Type A selected all Type 1 in the schedule. 
• Once selected click once into the open space on a drawing marked X on the picture.  
• You should then have the option to navigate the properties bar for the drawing
• Then selected the parameter you want to swap out for a new name

 

[babSS8Y9]

It is now 2026, 12 years since this post. And you are still unable to simply change the Value parameter which is typically the room name when using a color scheme. Same issue here, we created a project that utilizes our company colors, with 4 sub colors for each of the 4 main primary company colors. tranfering this into our template, realizing that theres no way to change the names of the already assigned room names, and when you do change it, you lose the colors because you are essentially adding in a new value thats not been determined.

i understand we could recreate this EVERY TIME. but with a maximum of 16 RGB colors to assign EVERY TIME what the point of being able to transfer color scheme at all into our template if we are essentially remaking it? 

come on Autodesk! THIS ONE WOULD BE AN EASY HOT FIX!