Sheets don't have enough sorting fields - way around it?

[jen-sa]

I have a sheet of elements & their properties, and need these elements to be grouped and to see which properties they differ in. In order to do that, i need to sort the sheet by the properties in question, otherwise Revit displays a blank cell where a property is not identical for all elements.

Now, there are more than four of those properties, so i have run out of sorting fields; and a combined parameter cannot be used for sorting. I have resorted to creating a pseudo combined parameter through dynamo to sort by, but this seems like a really roundabout way to do what i want... Am i missing something?

Archicad automatically won't group elements if a displayed property differs between them. It's a feature i find essential, and i can't quite understand what's the proper way to work with sheets in Revit when there are so few sorting fields.

[ToanDN · Accepted solution]

You can post the request for more Sorting Fields here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/idb-p/302

I have never found myself needing more than 4, but If I did then I would break one schedule into multiple schedules with a filter.

[jen-sa]

Apart from just using schedules to make better sense of the model, which i often do and could certainly use more sorting fields for; this is the standard way to schedule finishes in Russia: 

I would have to sort by at least 5 parameters to make something like this.

Sometimes i need to add more detail, this one specifically was used to account for rooms with several types of finishes:

I can't really achieve that by splitting the schedule (If i understood what you mean correctly).

Thank you for the suggestion regardless.

[ToanDN]

Another way that I can think of is using an integer parameter to drive the content of multiple parameters. For example, if you need to sort the schedule using 5 parameters, add an Integer parameter to drive the value of 2 existing parameters using formula, then sort the schedule using 3 existing parameters + the integer parameter.