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]

It would be a great organization tool if schedules could have a discipline parameter added to them. This way schedules could be found much easier in the project browser instead of relying on a naming convention to make wayfinding easier.

[Anonymous]

A Workset filter might be even better.

[Anonymous]

Maybe. I personally like the idea of a discipline as my whole browser is based on discipline. We have all within our office. Then I break it down to plan type.

I am a fan of trying to use out of the box functionality when it is convenient and when it matches our firms standards. 😃

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[adrian.calabria]

You can sort them now in 2018.1 like view sorting.

[SSampoux]

I would like to see the ability to sort/group schedules and legends in the Project Browser, much like we can do with sheets and views.

Schedules could be sorted alphabetically (current option), based on their category, or based on other parameters.

For instance, this would allow us to group all door schedules in a sub-folder.

Additionally, filtering of schedules and legends within the Project Browser could be beneficial.

[SSampoux]

Edit:

it appears part of this was just implemented in 2018.1 last week.

Schedules can now be organized by category.

Adding this feature for legends, based on a custom parameter would still be nice.

[pieterschiettecatte]

This is an exact duplicate to https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/browser-organization/idi-p/6335387

Also, if you're new to this forum, it's always interesting to scroll through the first few pages of the "top voted" items (see tab at the top) and add your support to the ones you like.

[Anonymous]

Interesting points above on browser control!  Would be useful to have an option to toggle browser organisation by project or by user I think.

As a thought for some additional functionality, if you would be able to launch additional project browser windows I think this could allow a great deal of flexibility.

Keep a project browser as is, essentially the master browser.
Allow the creation of additional browser windows, with a pre-launch window to name it, and via checkbox include on all the categories that Browser would require from the full list:

Views

Legends

Schedules

Sheets

Families

Groups

Links

This would allow anyone to create independent family browsers (as requested elsewhere) or view / sheet browsers as anyone might require.  Or custom schedule/legend browsers as requested .

Then, on any of these custom browsers, if similar filtering rules could be implemented, that would be fantastic!

Especially if the filter rule set could be expanded by say, sort by first hyphen/underscore separator, and second hyphen etc.

[Anonymous]

What everyone is asking for is very reasonable and by the sounds of it much needed. But please thing BIG! The whole browser UI needs to be refactored as the current interface is cumbersome at best.

-t

[matthew_taylor]

@lionel.kai They did think ahead - 2018 allows shared project parameters for the 'Schedules' category.

@Anonymous The UI for this section *is* getting an overhaul, so we can hope...

[daniel]

Implement the same grouping capability as in views  and schedules ! 

When creating a lot of legends this part gets really messy..!! 

[EBowman2]

The Schedule Browser organization needs to be driven by the user created Schedule Types, not the System ones.

[KIMRAMFI]

Does someone else think how stupid things we are asking from Autodesk? I mean these kind of ideas should be built in years ago into software. I see this as a basic thing which should absolutely be in their code already.

Buildings are getting more and more demanding and complex and we are asking a better project browser.

Is Autodesk actually using their softwares themselves in real projects? The problems what we are daily facing are so huge nowadays that it is not enough if Autodesk once a year provide some silly updates like 'Congratulations, now you can divide your legends into folders'. 

Please Autodesk do all the basic corrections to the next version and then start developing some real improvements what designers really need. You may be no. 1 BIM design software now but it won't last forever if you ignore the real needs. 

[KIMRAMFI]

And what comes to basic things are:

Fully controllable project browser (For example views  should be able to sort by own parameter, Assembly folders)

Focus on reporting the information from objects. Now Revit is missing just basic information from objects. (Weight based on material density, Column slanting angle, Column height, Column coordinates, Parts linestyles according to it's category, Automatic dimensioning tool for precast elements, Reinforcement templates for ease adding, Analytical pile and pilecap family etc.)

Revit has small amount of everything but not one complete section or part for designing. 

[Anonymous]

@harlan_brumm I see that there is a "Browser Organisation" function for schedules, I presume it has been added since the request.? However, there is still no Browser Organisation function for families. 

It would be great to be able to filter or split families by system/user families, as there are many families in the browser that I will hardly access from the Project Browser - such as doors, which would rather be selected from the Properties Browser after selecting the Door icon. Having these families clutter the Project Browser is slow.

[aimo]

Add Browser Organization to Legends as well!

Know that this is wished for earlier, but most of these are marked as ACCEPTED

Thought I should re open the issue because the case is only half solved.

[akesh]

Some versions back, Autodesk introduced the Browser Organisation to Schedules, which was a well overdue wait and an amazing update which kept schedules organised.  Why has this not been done for the Legends as well?  Please look into adding this helpful feature in the next Revit 2021 update.

[antonjubani]

... Still no Browser Organisation function for legends 😞

[ViviNyehuusAndersen]

@sasha.crotty I can see this was accepted in 2016, but it´s still not posible to organise Legends in 2022. 

When can I expect this? 

[justin.grayF6N2F]

While I don't think custom browser organization for Families would be a super great idea (outside of perhaps the main categories Revit uses in Visibility/Graphics + Annotation Categories maybe), I do think the Browser Organization window should have a tab for every main category in the Browser with the possible exception of Revit Links. Additionally, it would be nice to be able to filter Schedules/Panel Schedules for ones "not on sheets" similar to Views, even if a schedule can be placed on more than one sheet. Basically, add tabs for Legends, Panel Schedules, Groups, Assemblies, and Reports.

The tabs would then look something like this: 

Thanks!