topic Property of hotlinked module in Project data & BIM

Property of hotlinked module

Michal Forejt — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 04:53:16 GMT

Hi,

I have trouble with expressions. I would like to use expression, which tests, whether object is part of module.

I have some objects (e.g. sink) tahat are part of hotlinked module. This module has ID which corresponds to building ID (e.g. Building 01). Then I have some objects, that are not part of hotlinked module and they have property (BuildingID) which we manually fill out. And what I need to do is to have another property (e.g. BuildingIDschedule) which I can put into schedules. This property would be either "BuildingID" or "ModuleID" .

Simply:

IF "object is part of hotlinked module"; moduleID; BuildingID

Whatever I try I get undefined either for objects that are part of module or for the objects that are not.

Thank you

Operating system used: Windows

Re: Property of hotlinked module

Xandros — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:43:58 GMT

Hi,

I'd suggest to check the following:

is the property visible to all classifications that you intend it to be?
is the property exported from your main file to your hotlink module?

Re: Property of hotlinked module

Michal Forejt — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:56:17 GMT

Hi,

module is exported from the same file and property is set to be visible to all classifications. Objects are all properly classified.

Re: Property of hotlinked module

Xandros — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 07:13:44 GMT

I tried reproducing the error, but for me it worked like intended. Maybe you can share a few screenshots:

property-manager with the faulty expression
hotlink module settings of your mentioned sink

Re: Property of hotlinked module

Michal Forejt — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:15:23 GMT

As a workaround I used following expression:

#SEKCE IFS ( ID modulu = "A"; ID modulu; ID modulu = "B"; ID modulu; ID modulu = "C"; ID modulu; ID modulu = "D"; ID modulu; ID modulu = "E"; ID modulu; ID modulu = "F"; ID modulu; ID modulu = ""; SEKCE VOLBA )

This works as we use only 6 unique IDs for our modules (6 buildings - A, B, ...F). So in case object has any of the module IDs it returns Module ID (as building identification), otherwise it returns "SEKCE VOLBA" which is manually set up by us (Again A, B, ...F).

But what I was originally trying was this:

On printscreen you can see that #SEKCE works, but #SEKCE 1S doesn't work:

IF ( ISUNDEFINED ( ID modulu) ; SEKCE VOLBA; ID modulu )

This doesn't work either:

IF ( ISUNDEFINED ( ID modulu) ; ID modulu ; SEKCE VOLBA)

Re: Property of hotlinked module

Xandros — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:49:38 GMT

One approach I'd try:

IF ( OR(ID modulu = "A"; ID modulu = "B"; ID modulu = "C"; ID modulu = "D"; ID modulu = "E"; ID modulu = "F"); ID modulu; SEKCE VOLBA )

→ the usage of OR(condition1; condition2; ....; conditionN) simplifies the conditions you tried

another one to make the expression even easier:

IF ( ID modulu <> ""; ID modulu; SEKCE VOLBA )

ID modulu <> "" → means if ID modulu is not empty (there's a difference between the value being empty or being undefined)

with this type of writing the condition there's no need to specify what exactly is written in IDmodulu. As long there is some value in there it will use IDmodulu as a result.

Re: Property of hotlinked module

Michal Forejt — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:02:11 GMT

Thanks a lot. This is great. I have never seen usage of this <> - that is my little game changer with AC expressions 🙂