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Expression to convert Story Number to Letter

jimmynimmy — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:50:07 GMT

Hi,

I am dabbling in Expressions. I'd like to convert the Story Number to a Letter for some storeys, and others to remain unchanged i.e.

Story Number 0 converts to B2

Story Number 1 converts to B1

Story Number 2 converts to G

Story Number 3 (and above) unchanged.

I have worked out how to change 0, 1, and 2 to B2, B1, and G, but can't work out how to return the Story Numbers above this as unchanged. When I evaluate something on Story Number 4, "Evaluate..." returns <Undefined>.

This is the expression :

IFS (

CONTAINS ( "1", STR ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} ) ), "B2",

CONTAINS ( "2", STR ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} ) ), "B1",

CONTAINS ( "3", STR ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} ) ), "G" )

Any ideas?

Thankyou 🙂

Operating system used: Windows

Re: Expression to convert Story Number to Letter

Barry Kelly — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 04:43:04 GMT

Can't you just give the storeys a name and use that?

Or do you need a different name for other purposes?

Barry.

Re: Expression to convert Story Number to Letter

jimmynimmy — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 05:04:07 GMT

Hi Barry,

We give the storeys intuitive names like Ground, Level 1, Level 2, Roof

To create unique codes for Doors + Windows in Apartment / Room Modules we include the Story Number in the Label. Using the storey name would be too long... a short code is needed. These codes becomes a bit confusing when the tag displays 0 for Ground, -1 for B1 or -2 for B2 for example - so trying to do above conversion.

As well, sometimes our Story Numbers don't relate i.e. Level 7 may be on Story Number 5 - we use some arithmetic operators in the Expression so the code in the door relates to the storey it is on...

What are your thoughts?

Re: Expression to convert Story Number to Letter

Barry Kelly — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 05:24:14 GMT

If you are not using the intuitive names for anything, I would just change them to G, B1, etc.

Otherwise in your expression, you would have to convert all of the other storey numbers to text as well, 4 = "4" , 5 = "5".

i.e. continue your IFS statement ... CONTAINS ( "4", STR ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} ) ), "4"

This will only work in this case up to 9 storeys.

Storey 10 will also be evaluated as "B2" because it contains "0".

Barry.

Re: Expression to convert Story Number to Letter

jimmynimmy — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 05:30:28 GMT

We typically name views by the Project Map, so these names become visible in Titles and is clearer as full name..

Hmm OK - was hoping that was not the case.

There is no way to do something like... apply this expression for B1, B2, G but for all others just print the Home Story Number? Can the Sequence function be used in any way?

Thanks for the response

Re: Expression to convert Story Number to Letter

Barry Kelly — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 05:37:53 GMT

@jimmynimmy wrote:

There is no way to do something like... apply this expression for B1, B2, G but for all others just print the Home Story Number? Can the Sequence function be used in any way?

Not really.

You are creating a 'string' property for storeys 0, 1 & 2 (B1, B2 & G).

So you will need to also convert all the other storeys to also have the same string property equivalent.

Even though it will look like a number, it will be a 'string' (text version) of that number.

You will need to do the conversion for each storey.

Barry.

Re: Expression to convert Story Number to Letter

Xandros — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:28:23 GMT

you could try the following addition to your expression to achieve a result.
But have a look at the screenshot below for the outcome and change your expression accordingly:

IFS (
CONTAINS ( "1", STR ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} ) ), "B2",
CONTAINS ( "2", STR ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} ) ), "B1",
CONTAINS ( "3", STR ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} ) ), "G",
TRUE, STR ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number}, 0 ) )

Re: Expression to convert Story Number to Letter

Yves — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 10:47:15 GMT

Hi,
Here is another formula possibility using the floor number directly

Sorry formula in French

IFS ( {Property:Paramètres généraux/Numéro d'étage d'implantation} = 0; "B2"; {Property:Paramètres généraux/Numéro d'étage d'implantation} = 1; "B1"; {Property:Paramètres généraux/Numéro d'étage d'implantation} = 2; "G"; OR ( {Property:Paramètres généraux/Numéro d'étage d'implantation} < 0; {Property:Paramètres généraux/Numéro d'étage d'implantation} > 2 ); STR ( {Property:Paramètres généraux/Numéro d'étage d'implantation}; 0 ) )

Re: Expression to convert Story Number to Letter

jimmynimmy — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 23:26:11 GMT

Thanks everyone..

I ended up doing below, where Storey 3 here is Ground :

CONCAT ( IFS ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} = 3, "G", AND ( 3 < {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number}, {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} < 13 ), CONCAT ( "L0", LEFT ( RIGHT ( STR ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} - 3 ), 4 ), 1 ) ), {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} >= 13, CONCAT ( "L", STR ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} - 3, 0 ) ), {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} < 3, CONCAT ( "B0", LEFT ( RIGHT ( STR ( {Property:General Parameters/Home Story Number} - 3 ), 4 ), 1 ) ) ) )

This works more generally, so anything above Storey 3 will include an L infront. Storey 3 will be called G. And anything below will include a B infront (but only works to B09)

@Xandros How did you create that table?

Re: Expression to convert Story Number to Letter

Xandros — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:54:10 GMT

I created an empty file with a few storeys (-12 to 13)
added the expression as a property available to every classification
placed an element (wall for example) on each storey
created an interactive schedule
- criteria set to fit those placed elements
- fields are HomeStoreyNumber and the property containing the expression
if number of elements per storey is bigger than 1 (for example if this schedule is created in an already existing project), use the option to merge the scheduled items