Shared Parameters Not Available in Multi-Category Schedules

[jstipanovich]

First of all, it's inexcusable that Revit doesn't calculate extruded objects in material takeoffs.  I spent dozens of hours and directed my entire firm towards documenting finishes using material takeoffs and custom material parameters but since Revit can't perform a takeoff for anything that uses a profile has decimated that workflow.  Not to mention that Material Tags become unassociated for no reason.  My firm probably thinks I'm an idiot.

So I thought that maybe I could create these same parameters and apply them to the categories we want to extract this info from - roofs, gutters, facias, soffits, walls, sweeps, columns, curtain wall panels, and mullions - and then create a Multi-Category Schedule and use the new parameters as the Fields.  But the results were as follows

I created two Shared Parameters named "FINISH_Schedule Filter" and "FINISH_Description". 

Then in a project, I created Project Parameters using the Shared Parameters I created and applied them to Walls and Roofs.  When I select a wall or roof, the parameters are available to fill out, however,  when I create a multi-Category Schedule, the parameters are not available in the Fields to add to the schedule.

Why?  I have dozens of door hardware parameters created exactly the same way and they are available to add to a multi-category schedule.  They're they're not even Shared Parameters.

Can anyone decipher this?

RANT:

I'm am so close to being done with BIM Management!!!  Inconsistency after inconsistency in Revit has me so stressed that I've literally bitten my nails to the quick.  My life was far easier responding to Revit's inconsistencies as opposed to spending days and sometimes weeks creating parameters and schedules and families only to find out that it was all for nothing because of 1 small little nuance of how Revit works.  I don't understand how anyone sticks with it.  I'm one of the best Revit people in my whole city yet I constantly feel like a failure as a BIM Manager.

[HVAC-Novice]

I don't know I follow and what exactly you try to accomplish. But there is a difference between loadable (most likely your door hardware) and system (walls, roofs) families. Part of what you tell may be related system families not behaving like loadable families. 

System family parts usually are built on site (like walls) and loadable families come from elsewhere (a door shipped to site). This may not help you in your situation but may explain why it doesn't work as expected or isn't designed to work as you want. 

You want linear length of extruded objects? 

[jstipanovich · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your feedback.  I reposted with more detailed explanation of what my goal and issues are...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/scheduling-profile-driven-elements-amp-exter...