topic Re: Missing Attributes in Modeling

Missing Attributes

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:32:54 GMT

Hi All:
Working in 19. I have missing attributes in a number of objects, ranging from windows to morphs (per find and select). When I click into one of these objects, I can't seem to find the missing attribute—morphs don't have many attributes anyway. Any idea where else to look?

Re: Missing Attributes

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 21:30:27 GMT

Further, nothing is missing in the Library Loading Report...

Re: Missing Attributes

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 21:38:32 GMT

And some more information:
1. The missing attributes are in objects that have different Building Materials.
2. I tried copying and pasting out of this file and into a default new file and it still says missing attributes in find & select.
3. Objects were copied and pasted from a version 18 file originally.

Re: Missing Attributes

Steve Jepson — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:48:10 GMT

You may need to show us an example.
What exactly is the missing attribute?

Re: Missing Attributes

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:32:49 GMT

I have no idea what the missing attribute is. Using find and select, I can pick all the objects that contain SOME missing attribute. How does one find out what is missing?

Re: Missing Attributes

Steve Jepson — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:41:33 GMT

A report will be generated when you open the file.

In the Library Manager they can be seen like this -

Re: Missing Attributes

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 01:03:06 GMT

Yes, there is nothing listed as missing in Library Loading Report

Re: Missing Attributes

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 01:05:21 GMT

Screen capture:

Re: Missing Attributes

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 01:06:23 GMT

Library Manager:

Re: Missing Attributes

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:14:26 GMT

A bit more:
Find and select is telling me attributes are missing from marker objects (including interior elevation and detail).

Could this possibly be a bug in find and select?

Re: Missing Attributes

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:36:49 GMT

Open any of the elements Find & Select says is missing attributes and check all its fields and settings in its Settings Dialog. One of the fields should contain the "MISSING" value, which is the value you will have to set to a valid value.
You will have to do this with all such elements.

Re: Missing Attributes

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:50:50 GMT

Hi Laszlo:
I have tried this and can't find anything. I've toggled on all checkboxes to make sure every attribute is showing and still nothing is shown as "MISSING."

Is there a way I can share the file with you to have a look?

Re: Missing Attributes

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 12:36:45 GMT

If you put it on Dropbox and PM me the URL I will take a look.

Re: Missing Attributes

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 14:46:25 GMT

For anyone following this thread:
I have forwarded this issue to Graphisoft because after quite some searching I could not find what is causing these Missing Attribute errors.
As it turned out that based on the "Attributes are Missing" criterion the Find & Select Dialog sometimes selects elements that do not actually have missing attributes.

The other problem I see here is that they have found parameters in which were missing parameters but were very hard to find on the interface. This makes me agree with rpinkham that there should be more information given by the program on exactly which attribute is missing and how to access it (in case of Doors/Windows and complex objects) a certain parameter may become enabled only if several other parameters are enabled or set to certain values. This makes finding certain parameters on the interface rather hard).