Text Parameter "list" of saved info.

[Anonymous]

Hello All,

I have been creating schedules to follow company standards, and I have a question on how to save a list of options.  Let me explain...

I have a simple door family in the project.  Once the doors are placed, the information for that door is manually entered.  At first we were going to make family types for the options but there would be way too many.  SO my approach is to just enter the info. that can't be automatically pulled from the family parameters (wxh etc.).

For example, I have the same door through out the project, but some have different hand swings or fire rating.  What I wanted to do is enter all the options in the text parameter that is in the door properties, 30min, 60min, etc. and have that saved so when I go to the next door I just pull down the options "saved" or already entered.  I was testing it on a dummy project template and it worked the way I wanted -**but** - when I cleaned it up and deleted all the doors but one, door, all those options that I could pull down were gone except for the door that remained..

Is there something I am doing wrong or can't I do what I wanted?

Before REVIT, the old office used AutoCAD Architecture and the "list" functionality worked great - you created a list, associated it to a parameter (they called them property set definitions, and then you had your pull-down list of stored option, that were stored in a project template or imported in from elsewhere.

Any suggestion would be greatly apprieciated....

Thanks in advance...

Jleibold

[L.Maas]

That you saw values and they disapeared is expected. What Revit is doing is that it pulls the values of the same parameter from exisitng objects. So when you deleted those objects thos values are also gone and your lists becomes empty.

For what you want you should have a look at key schedules. In key schedules you can create a list of Default values which you than can assign to certain parameters.

[Anonymous]

Enllint,

Thanks for the response..

I been looking at them but to have every possible combination figured out isn't going to happen - there are just too many variables.

It seems to me if I wanted to do it for each column I would have to make a key schedule for each?

[L.Maas]

I would look at trying to break it down. Creating several door types, Some Key Schedules. If you have few parameters in a single Key schedule it will be a manageable list. Then you can create a few of those Key schedules. And maybe some parameters you just can leave as instance parameter.

Still family types could still be an option. I have made families with over 250 different types. Logical naming and using a type catalog made it quite manageable. Experience is that with in a project you usually only need to load a smal subset of the different family types.

Also note that when you have key schedule, you can set the key to "none" allowing manual ebntry of the values.

[Anonymous]

I see what you are getting at....

So, there could be a couple of key schedules for a overall schedule - correct?  I guess that the door schedule will be some work in order to make it work smoothly, with a few door families w/ types also - I'm seeing now....

Thanks for your comments.

If you have any examples to share or any links to follow on how to create door schedules w/ key schedules other than the plain jane simple explaination videos that I have found over the weekend, that would be great - to point me in the right direction 

Jleibold