How to modify the room department list ?

[Angayo]

Dear forum members,

I am currently using Revit 2016. Offline help is inoperative and online help just died as well.

I am trying to export rooms out of Revit after having modified the schedules to suit our needs. One room property is Department, which we could recycle as it is very similar to the EPM-ID (Energy Perfomance Management) we use.

Department is an Identy Data property that can be selected from a pull-down list.

 

How can I modify that list ?

[Avaris. · Accepted solution]

You don't have to modify that list, just type a fancy name and hit apply. The drop-down only shows the names that are already within your model preventing you to make near duplicates.

[Angayo]

Indeed. Just typing in stuff works. Thanks.

Modifying in the schedule is slow though, as Revit updates the tags (and maybe other things) after each change and one apparently can’t group-modify rooms there.

Is there a way to make that list limitative ? In Autocad one can use such lists for manual properties.

[ToanDN]

Create several Rooms in a different Phase or a different Workset and enter the needed Department value for each one. They will become the predefined dropdown list.

[Angayo]

I don’t know how to go to a different workset, so I created 3 rooms using separators in a different phase and gave them department names. In the original phase those were just added to the department list iso making up a new list.

Then I deleted the 3 superfluous room and the room separators. Then Revit created many rooms in the original phase on top of existing ones. Next, I pressed ctr+z several times to get rif of all the garbage. That actually worked. So I could test what happened : I had inadvertently also selected and thus deleted the grid (in the alternate phase). That prompted Revit to create many room in the original phase. Why did it do that ?

After deleting the test rooms, the test department names remain in the department list. How can I get rid of them ?

[ToanDN]

Delete the rooms you don't need from a room schedule to get rid of them completely.

[Angayo]

The non-placed rooms do seem to appear in schedules lately. I remember deleting Test 1, but I am seeing neither Test 1 nor Test 2, so I must have deleted both of them. Yet, Test 1 and Test 2 still appear in the Department list.

[Anonymous]

This is probably not the best practice, but I had created a color filled legend (Annotate>Color fill> color filled legend>according to rooms and department) for my layout. Then select the color fill legend>Modify>Edit Color Schema. Deleted the departments I didn't need (using the red '-' sign). Hope it works for you. P.S.-You can only delete unassigned departments.