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Still cant edit items in Schedule

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 02:23:05 GMT

Hi all, (I'm using Archicad 23)

I've googled this extensively, and read a dozen posts on this forum about how you have to unlock and un-hide all the layers that walls might be on so that the schedule becomes editable. I'm still missing a crucial piece of information.

I've created a window schedule, with a few extra Custom Text Fields. I can't edit the values in the Custom Text Fields.

I've turned all the layers on in the plan view, the schedule editing window, and the layout that the schedule is in ... to no avail. All layers are unlocked.
I've done a 'select all' (with all the layers turned on in plan view) and done 'unlock all' .... still can't edit the schedule.
The little green square and green cube (in the schedule editing window) are not greyed out. And I'm not

I'm at my wits end here ... I know I'm missing something but I can't put my finger on it. Can anyone help?

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

DGSketcher — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:38:04 GMT

I always have a layer combination saved "All On & Unlocked". When you save your schedule view, you need to open the view settings and change the layer combination to your version of "All On & Unlocked". Close the settings and rebuild the schedule. Hopefully that fixes it, if it doesn't you may have other issues like locked elements, hot linking or even teamwork to address.

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:17:47 GMT

Tanks for your reply DGSketcher. I had actually done exactly what you suggest ... created a layer combo with everything on and unlocked. And this view is applied to the "Modified Source View Settings" of the schedule view that has been placed on the layout. My custom fields are *still* uneditable.

There is no hot linking, and there is no teamwork action.

Do you know if 'grouped' walls are considered locked?

Is there a way to 'unlock everything' on every story?

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 10:46:15 GMT

To further diagnose my problem, I created a window schedule that just has 1 window in it (I created it by making a rule: elementID is "W01").

I still cannot edit the custom text (nor the window ID). But at least now I can diagnose the problem. The wall the window is in is not locked. There are no hotlinks.

Can someone suggest something else that I can check?

Edel

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 05:50:05 GMT

Could you post some screenshots?
Like a screenshot of the Floor Plan, and another one about the generated Schedule, with the uneditable cell selected?

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

Minh Nguyen — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:47:44 GMT

Hi Edel,

Thank you very much for the question!

I tried to replicate this issue using the default template for Archicad 24 INT 4018. Unfortunately, I was unable to reproduce it, the custom property can be edited in schedule. Could you share with us some screenshots of the custom property set up and the schedule? It would be great if we can take a long at your sample file also!

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:08:27 GMT

Apologies for the delayed reply ...

I had to solve the issue quickly so I ended up creating custom properties in the window classification ... so that I could allocate property values within the window tool, and no longer needed to edit properties directly in the window schedule.

Ironically, I've noticed that I can now change the Element ID directly within the schedule. No idea what happened ... nor how it was undone ...

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

P_Arcke — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 05:03:47 GMT

SOLVED: I think I had this exact issue with no 'fix". The solution was to literally just zoom in. Above a certain percentage some fields aren't able to be edited. Go figure. What I'd really like to see adjusted is the ability to edit fields if they aren't currently active (ie: change the material of a sill even if it's unactive because there's one shown by default and I want to change them all to be a material listed as "---" when not in use)

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

Riven — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:59:17 GMT

RELATED SOLUTION: I had a similar issue with custom (basic string data type) properties that once were editable (working) in a schedule, but were later no longer editable directly in the schedule. After confirming all layers were visible, and unlocked, and that the properties could be edited on the elements themselves, I needed to completely re-assign those properties to that schedule since I had recently changed the name of the affected properties themselves in the property manager.

After simply removing the properties from the schedule through the scheme settings, clicking OK to confirm those changes, and then re-adding the exact same properties in the schedule's scheme settings resolved this issue for me. Funnily enough, other similar but different schedules in the same project file referencing the same properties did not have this issue, which led me to think something was off about that particular schedule. Hope this helps inform the developers somewhat.

ArchiCAD v25; Windows 10, solo .pln file accessed over a LAN network.

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

JOHN WR — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 01:45:06 GMT

You'll never guess the solution: TURN ON ALL LAYERS

This makes no sense at alll

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

Kvalheim — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 08:37:11 GMT

Just a sidenote here, that I was not aware of, is that the field "Hotlink and element ID" is not editable in schedules, whereas "Element ID" is. I came here because I could not figure out why the IDs could not be edited from the schedule, but eventually figured it out. It doesn't seem like this is the exact issue for OP, but a thing to look for is whether the field is blue or black in the Scheme settings. If the field is blue it's editable and if it's black it's uneditable. In most cases "Element ID" does the trick, but in the template I'm working with the window list schedule was set to "Hotlink and element ID".

I really wish Archicad was a bit more informative in terms of the UI giving feedback on why certain things are locked, uneditable etc. I quite often find myself in situations where something just randomly will not work and having to test ten different settings to find the underlying cause.

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

ammacdon — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:03:47 GMT

Still having the same problem in ArchiCAD 27 6010: unlocking all layers or blue/black fields in the schedule settings seem to make no difference.

It seems the only way to get an editable text field in a schedule—for a (e.g. window) object—is if the icon to the left of the field name is a mouse pointer, rather than "Abc".

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

Barry Kelly — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:42:52 GMT

@ammacdon wrote:

Still having the same problem in ArchiCAD 27 6010: unlocking all layers or blue/black fields in the schedule settings seem to make no difference.

It seems the only way to get an editable text field in a schedule—for a (e.g. window) object—is if the icon to the left of the field name is a mouse pointer, rather than "Abc".

If you select that window in plan, can you edit the same "ABC' text field in the object settings?

If so then you should be able to edit it in the schedule.

But make sure you open the schedule from the Project Map list (that way you will have the same settings (layers) as you have in plan).

Or if you open from the View Map list, you must ensure that the layer combination is not "Custom" and that the layer the windows (walls) are in is visible and unlocked.

Barry.

Re: Still cant edit items in Schedule

ammacdon — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:11:23 GMT

@Barry Kelly Thanks for the help. I think this might be the culprit: in the "Field Merge Options" setting per row in the schedule, choosing "Uniform values only" seems to allow editing text values for door objects directly from the schedule (for IFC & object attributes).