How to add data rows to schedule

[tstewart]

I am creating an "Occupancy Load" for Life Safety plan and need to add editable rows. How to add and edit rows?

[ToanDN]

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@tstewart wrote:

I am creating an "Occupancy Load" for Life Safety plan and need to add editable rows. How to add and edit rows?

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You can only add data rows to a key schedule.  Is this a key schedule or a room schedule?

[tstewart · Accepted solution]

I made it under "Schedule," so it could be a Key Schedule. How would you make a schedule for adding Occupancy Loads for a Life Safety plan?

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

If this schedule is for occupant load calculation then you must use room schedule and add rooms to your model.  The room added to the model will be added to the schedule as data rows. 

Example of a room schedule:

If this schedule is for setting occupancy data then use key schedule for rooms category and you can add data rows directly to the schedule for entering data.

Example of a key schedule:

They are for different purposes so make sure you choose the correct schedule.

[tstewart]

Excellent and we will use the Key Schedule.

Thank you,

TS

[tstewart]

I may have spoken too soon. Where will I find the "Key" Schedule? I looked in my "Schedule" drop down and do not see a "Key" schedule (i.e., Demo., Key Door, Room, etc.). Do I need to create it in the Family?

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

[tstewart]

EXCELLENT!!!

TY

[tstewart]

The Rooms are not automatically populating. Is there a way to make them populate?

[ToanDN]

A key schedule does NOT populate rooms from the model.  It is for entering data for different keys.

You need Room schedule to populate rooms from the model and calculate occupant load from the rooms. 

Please re-read my post where I show examples of a room schedule and a key schedule.

[tstewart]

I'm missing something because I have a Room schedule,

 

and the rooms are not populating. Do I have to put the rooms in manually in order for the schedule to populate?

[RDAOU]

@tstewart 

That looks more like a rooms key schedule with empty data rows. You nees to select Schedule Building Components

And make sure to select the phase on which those rooms were placed.

[tstewart]

I need to make an Occupancy Load & Egress schedule, listing all spaces, square footage, Occupancy Load, etc. any suggestion?

Thank you,
TS

[RDAOU]

@tstewart 

You need primarily the schedule mentioned and shown in the screenshot of my the previous reply. A key schedule is used primarily as a dictionary. This is used for automation where you define all the occupancy related data to a key and then assign a key for each room in the schedule in order to make your life easier. Example:

In the Key Schedule you enter keys manually (no model rooms are involved)

•  Key 1 = Rented Offices
  1. Occupancy type = A
  2. Area Type = Net
  3. OLF or Area per Occupant = 250
•  Key 2 =  Residential Space 
  1. Occupancy type = B
  2. Area Type = Gross
  3. OLF or Area per Occupant = 300
• ...etc say you have 5 or 6 Keys total

In your Room schedule, where you would be having 300 rooms,  you do not want to fill in the Occupancy/Area Type/OLF for all 300 rooms, instead you use the keys. 

1. Create the room schedule, select Schedule Building Components
2. Add the field Key Name from the Key schedule
3. Add all the other field (including the necessary calclated values for your Occupancy Load calculation)
4. Now instead of filling, you simply enter the Key name next to the rooms which are automatically listed. ie: when you enter Rented Offices, it will fill in automatically the values which you defined in the key schedule

[tstewart]

Thank you and I'll give it a try. Stay tuned...