Global Parameters Question

[AidanHawkins]

I am working on an office building

Each room I have created is an office

I have text parameters in identity data that show the names of different occupants in each room. 

I have created parameters named occupant 1, occupant 2, occupant 3...

Is there a way I can count how many people are in the building using a global parametre, that recognises each time I fill in an occupant it will give me a total count of the people in the building

Regards

Aidan

[hmunsell]

i would use a Shared Parameter and then use the Has a Value filter. Then you can Calculate Totals. in this example i used the Type Mark, but you should be able to use it on any parameter.

[ToanDN]

Edit:

if you want to only count the rooms with Occupant value, then use a Filter: [your parameter name]  [is greater than] [blank].  See example below:

You can count the number of occupants but not by Global Parameters.  Create a Room schedule, add a number or an integer parameter to the schedule, for mat it to calculate totals, enter the value for each room and you will get the total occupants.  You can also create a calculated value parameter to get the occupant = rom area / occupant load factor.

But you definitely do not need a Global parameter here.

[barthbradley]

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@AidanHawkins wrote:

I have text parameters in identity data that show the names of different occupants in each room. 

I have created parameters named occupant 1, occupant 2, occupant 3...

Is there a way I can count how many people are in the building using a global parametre, that recognises each time I fill in an occupant it will give me a total count of the people in the building

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Not with a Text Parameter.  

[AidanHawkins]

okay so I will just create another project parametre and enter the total number of occupants in each room manually and then caluculate totals to get the total amount in each building?

[barthbradley]

That'll work. 

[ToanDN]

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@AidanHawkins wrote:

okay so I will just create another project parametre and enter the total number of occupants in each room manually and then caluculate totals to get the total amount in each building?

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Yes you can but you can also carry on with your original approach.  See my edited post.

[AidanHawkins]

Morning Guys

Here is the example from my project

Please look at Level 2

How can I total the amount of occupants using the count parameter?

Thanks

 

[ToanDN]

Did you read my post?

[AidanHawkins]

Yes but I have 2 occupant parameters

How do I add the counts together? is it possible? do I need a formula?

Thanks

Aidan