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Tracking Typical Detail Versions?

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mseward25
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Tracking Typical Detail Versions?

My firm is transitioning from majority autoCAD users to majority Revit users. As such, our typical detail library is more developed on the CAD side. 

My plan is to recreate all of the details as drafting views and keep them in a container file, which I believe is pretty standard based on other firms I've worked at. 

My one hiccup is concerns on tracking the typical details. In some of our project typologies, the typical detail may be revised while the project is on-going and the engineers want a "smart" way to know if their detail is not the latest version (aside from the emails we send out that detail "XXX" has been modified). They appreciate that when you link the cad version, if the name changes, then the link breaks - which gives them a clear sign something has changed. 

 

Is there any way to achieve this in Revit? I have basic Dynamo skills, but didn't know if this was possible with a script, or if there's another way? I'd like to take a decent shot at making this work for my team, thank you!

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Ahmed_Muharram
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I would suggest adding a shared parameter for all typical details that states the Date of rev for it

Ahmed Muharram, B.Sc, AEE, ACI, ACP
BIM Manager
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hmunsell
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along the lines of @Ahmed_Muharram.... Add the date or version to the naming convention of the detail. 

Howard Munsell
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mseward25
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Thank you both! So the anticipated workflow would be the user checking that they have the most recent version of the detail in their project? Or is there a way to automate that and check the parameter in the detail versus the parameter in the container file detail? 

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