Reducing Repetitive Sync Notifications in Revit While Working on Dependent Views

[soumyadeep_saha]

Is there a way to stop receiving repetitive sync notifications when two different people are working on separate parts of a dependent view in Revit, using the same template but different Revit IDs?

Example:
Imagine a foundation plan split into two parts. Both parts are dependent views. Person A and Person B are working on each part simultaneously, using the same template and different Revit accounts. Despite working on different elements in different views, both users are frequently interrupted by sync notification pop-ups, which disrupts their workflow. Is there a solution to reduce or eliminate these repetitive notifications?

[RDAOU]

@soumyadeep_saha 

Other than what is available under Options, I do not believe there is. Is the notification you are getting related to Sync reminders or to other users havning synced modifications which affected the parent view

If the latter, you do not want to stop these from showing because if either of the local models gets outdated (too many syncs behind the Central and the other locals), that user might end up not being able to sync with the Central and could end up losing his work.

What makes such prompts excessive is one user being too paranoid and syncing every second minute. Working on the same workset, dependent views or design options will ultimately alert the other users to sync as well. You should set the intervals in option and ask the users not to over do it with the syncing in between intervals. 

That said,  it is also recommended not to leave a local session open when the user is afk or out of the office for an extended period of time.

[RSomppi]

Sometimes, editing those different elements affect others that may be owned by the other user. A way to stop the notification is to stop "stepping on each other's toes" (as I like to call it) or synch more often. Another possible solution is to set-up separate worksets. It's just the nature of the beast. Revit won't allow a user to edit elements if they are already borrowed by another user.

[SteveKStafford]

Much as the other two replies... it comes down to each of you agreeing on what you will be doing. You can add new elements to the model all day but editing existing elements will require staying out of the other person's way. Also views will let multiple people view the model but as soon as one of you change a property of the view you'll be a borrower of the view and that can impact the other users. Minor visibility changes will cause the other users to get a warning about their changes being temporary but more impactful changes like scale or turning off categories will force you to sync to allow for that to happen.

It is useful to have working views for modeling activities so we can do whatever we need to do to the view to see what we are doing well. The views don't have to persist. For example, I often create a 3D to do thing something specific but then delete it before syncing so it never really existed, for anyone else at least. If I'm working on something for a few days I might keep my own working views around for longer but usually I get rid of them at the end of the day so the model doesn't have unnecessary views.

Using working views means that the documentation views can be edited more freely by someone else because I'm not sharing a view they are working in. However, if I'm putting in walls and doors it's not really practical to expect someone else to be chasing me around the model to tag them in documentation views...at least not until I've made some progress and let them know...sync'd my work.

Revit's worksharing is like a librarian managing the library and no single book can be borrowed by more than one person and everything in the project is a book. Worksets are the shelves that we can associate a book with. That gives us the ability to sort things on to their own shelves like the East or West wings. If we do that then I could take ownership of the entire bookshelf for the East wing so all the model elements would be borrowed along with the shelf. Nobody else would be able to work on those elements until I relinquished them. That would reduce warnings for me but others would bump into me every time they tried to edit something assigned to the East wing's workset.

So it really depends on how well we communicate what each of us should do for the next 15, 30, 60 minutes.

[handjonathan]

Hi @soumyadeep_saha 

Thanks a lot for posting your question to the forums!   Have the solutions suggested by @SteveKStafford @RSomppi @RDAOU helped with your issue?
 
We look forward to hearing back from you with more information so we can help you as a community!