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It would be very helpful and productive to be able to compare view templates (either between projects or even inside a project) to find out their differences and nuances.
View templates get duplicated and modified, and/or copied and transferred; because of which you often end up with many more than you are actually using or need. There is no good way to delve into their depths or efficiently purge out the extraneous templates (while possibly keeping ones you may want to preserve). There is no information-dense way to export view templates that gets all the depths and features they often make use of. A simple comparison application where you could select two (or maybe more) templates and get a side-by-side on-screen properties list of them would be great. An option to “highlight differences” would be even more helpful. And I’m sure there’s additional functionality that could be added as well.
View templates are a very powerful and common part of Revit, we need some enhanced user-interface for how we manage and interact with them.
I’d be interested to read how folk think this would be done or delivered. If you look at Konrad’s Archi-Lab blog he has some nodes that provide this kind of functionality, but when you start digging into it it’s insanely complicated. Consider, even if you exported all the data to excel to view it doing a comparison is still extremely tricky to visualise...
I am voting for this but honestly, I’ve no idea right bow how it could be effectively delivered...
You could start with the same dialogs, but with an extra "column" (would actually be multiple columns) for the 2nd View Template's setting - probably with a gap in between (maybe that's where you could put the controls). Basically two scrolling windows that are synchronized - or one w/ a spacer/indicator column embedded. There should be some kind of filter so that you could show all, or just differences (similar to Beyond Compare). Differences should be highlighted (a yellow background would definitely work - unless there's a yellow fill/line in any settings LOL - maybe just a column in the middle that shows ≠ where needed). There should also be a way to "copy" from one to another (again, sim to BC): such as selecting a model category or filter on one side, then clicking an arrow to copy it to the other side.
When you do that, please integrate with the idea of having the master template with sub-templates (a matrix od tick boxes with the columns being the sub-templates and the rows being all the parameters, families, filters, sub-categories, line styles, etc...). The compare tool that is quite usefull could easily feed on that logic.
It would be nice to compare the current project against said template, and have the possibility to change update in ether direction (try to make it so that we don't have to have both files in the same revit version, as templates are usually a few version older than current projects... (or maybe it's vice versa if it's a legacy project that we need to keep in the same version for some reason...).
I'm hopeful (pessimistically) that the new Autodesk Assistant for Revit will be able to do this. This type of functionality is the type of thing it needs to be taught. So a prompt like, "Please"... we should be polite to our future overlords after all... "Please, compare View Template ABC with View Template XYZ and report what the differences are."
Or, "Please compare every view using View Template ABC and report what Visibility Graphics overrides and other settings which are set differently between the views." That would be a good use for this too. Perhaps the view template is too loose and needs to be tightened up a bit or perhaps it shows that it is just right. I like to set the view templates really tight, but then users will loosen the apron strings to allow more changes. And something like this could help me rein it in.
Oh! Another use case... I have views with no view template... "Please compare the settings in this (or these) view(s) with View Template XYZ and report the differences." Perhaps we need a new View Template. Perhaps the changes don't meet standards and need changed back. This could help diagnose lots of things.
Your ideas @Ric_Weber are perfect. The only sad part of the "Assistant" is that at the end he would ask "Would you like me to replace template A with B or vice-versa?" or "Would you like me to apply the template to the views?". Some of those can be answered by a yes or no answer, but half the time we would like to merge some of those differences only in one direction or the other.
Having a dedicated interface with proper column options (and lots of bollean buttons) will be the only way to reliably manage this complexity.
And I remember again - a lot of our problems would go away in the first place if the revit links tab would become independent from the other tabs and reused much more times than the usual view template is... - Create the Revit Links Template and give us an option to assign link views by level without having to loose the Revit Links Template or create one for each floor when there is no need for that.
