Browser Organization for Schedules, Legends and Families

[BethanyPritchard]

This idea comes from reading other's requests for a schedule browser and a family browser.  What if the existing project browser just had the ability to organize the Schedules, Legends and Families similar to what we currently have with Views & Sheets.  (Browser Organization under user interface currently only has two tabs, Views & Sheets, but why not add tabs for Legends, Schedules & Families).  This would allow us to duplicate Schedule Types and Legend Types and setup Browser Organization to list schedules and legends into groups the way we prefer.  (We currently can duplicate schedule and legend types, but it doesn't do any good because the browser can't be organized for those items).

[Anonymous]

Add Schedule and Legend organization Tab. 

[ViviNyehuusAndersen]

This also requires you add Legends and Schedules in catagories in Project parameters.

So we can create parameters to sort these by.

[lionel.kai]

see also: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/browser-organization/idi-p/6335387

[ThierryMonteyneSWECO]

It looks like Autodesk has no live project were Schedules and Legends multiply like rabbits. Just a small example: if you rebar your model, and the smaller your sheets are, the larger the amount of Rebar Schedules become, AND we have way to order them like Views.

To Autodesk, get in touch with Dan Peticila, if you need more information.

[AnthonyViscusi]

I would also like to see that the Browser Organization setting becomes "per user" and does not sync to central.  I frequently have users become confused that the browser organization changed because I wanted to look at which view Templates were assigned to which views.  This can function similarly to the new feature where a linked model can be unloaded per user.

[ViviNyehuusAndersen]

oh no, that would be terrible if every user could organize the browser as they wish.

Our company have strictly rules how the browser must be organized and they are not allowed to change this.

So if this is implicated its has to be optional

[sasha.crotty]

Thanks for your submission and votes on this idea! We are evaluating where this request falls into our roadmap and will provide an update when we have made a decision.

The Factory

[AnthonyViscusi]

@ViviNyehuusAndersen   I can appreciate that need for company standards, and the change I suggested would not impact how browser organization is setup with the different templates.  You would create a template for your office standard and have it be active by default in your office project template.  However, there are many other uses for the browser sorting which cannot be ignored when troubleshooting views, in particular the "NOT ON SHEETS" and sorting by view templates can be quite useful.

My argument was that if a user selects a different browser org setup and then syncs the project, other users will get that configuration when they reload the model.  This can be confusing for them.

[Zsolt.Varga]

Similar wish reported by customer Henry Beddoes: 

Please, enable the Project Browser to organize Groups in the project in Subfolders.

[ptranbergNTI]

By default it could be usefull to group Schedules by Type and category...

Schedule/Quantities

         Doors

         Structural Columns

         Windows

Material Takeoff

         Walls

         Floors

ETC...

Regards

Peter

[gmp-autodesk1]

It would be great if this could be extended to families and groups, too. Basically make the browser function the same for everything it shows. Large projects often have long lists of different annotation families and having a way to organize this into a few easier to navigate smaller ones would help a lot.

[harlan_brumm]

At our Inside the Factory Live event this year, we discussed this request in detail.  We think this is a great idea and we've decided to add it to our roadmap.  Thanks for the suggestion and keep voting and the ideas coming!

The Factory

[harlan_brumm]

Congrats! We think this is a great idea, so we've decided to add it to our roadmap. Thanks for the suggestion!

The Factory

[Anonymous]

В "Организацию диспетчера проектов" добавить спецификации.

[Anonymous]

Views and sheets are able to be sorted by discipline / sub-discipline etc. It would be nice to be able to organize schedules.

[schlueter]

Already accepted and on the roadmap.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/browser-organization/idi-p/6335387

[adrian.calabria]

Is there any indication when this might be implemented?

[matthew_taylor]

Project Browser sorting of Schedules is LIVE in Revit 2018.1.

Well done, development team.

[adrian.calabria]

Good work team!

[lionel.kai]

Now we just have to wait for Families, Legends, Groups? ...

They must have planned ahead when they finalized the 2018 file format - we're forever hearing about how they can't add features without changing the database format...