option switch

[jfjacques]

I've posted about this before, more of a rant. 

I'm dealing with a lot of options. This tool is great but broken. 

Why can I not lock the Option I work on with my view? (BTW I AM setting the vg options, so don't bring that up.) 

Every time I go to a different view I have to reset the option I am working on, it's infuriating. The entire point of options is to seamlessly go from one to another. 

[barthbradley]

DESIGN Option?  And VGO is not set to Automatic, but to specific DO? 

[ToanDN]

Basically you want Views to treat Design Options like Phases?

[jfjacques]

No, as I made explicit, not through VGO.

 I'm exploring using phases in lieu of design options, but that gets very confusing when you have both options and phases. 

Can someone explain the benefit of not having the option locked to the view ? There really isn't any. 

[ToanDN]

I was not suggesting using Phases, just wanted to confirm if you want DOs to work like Phases, meaning they are per View.  And why was I not suggesting using Phases?  Yhey does not work when you need to show Phases not in sequence, without a lot of work. 

For now, there isn't anything you can do except to keep yourself accustomed to set the active option if you want edit it more efficiently, regardless of the VGO of the view.

[SteveKStafford]

Opening a view does not activate editing a design option because that's an assumption Revit isn't going to make for us. Revit isn't evaluating what we're thinking about doing merely by opening a view. We can assign a view to show a specific design option (or several options) but that choice doesn't tell Revit anything about the overall scope of the view or what we're thinking. If the view shows more than one Design Option which one should become active? Also when we do activate a specific design option for editing we are free to open any view that might be useful to do that task.

Shorter answer is that Revit's developers have not tied activating a design option being assigned to a view to that view being open.