How to control number of rows in a schedule Question Updated

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to use the interactive schedule tool but how to control the number of rows is eluding me. I can control the columns just fine, but my schedule has more than 100 rows and I can't find out how to change it into eight rows.

UPDATED QUESTION:
Maybe I'm doing something wrong and what it is can be pointed out.

I'm trying to create a schedule about a particular item on a drawing that is represented by a box made out of four lines. In other words what I'm trying to make a schedule about is not an object that I can reference with the parameters provided.

That's ok, all I want is for the schedule tool to generate the table and let me enter the text I need so I can place it.

I create a schedule but remove all criteria types. I define seven columns for custom text. I enter the header info and freeze it. But I'm left with a schedule that has more than a hundred rows and the information I do enter into the cells disappears if I leave the schedule.

Can anyone point out what I may be doing wrong?

[Link]

There's a formatting panel on the left if the schedule window. It contains a setting that says something like 'Uniform Entries on one Row' (from memory). That may be what you need to put all of the objects with identical parameters in rows of their own.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

I need to revisit this and any help would be appreciated.

Basically, I gave up on the schedules for the most part in AC back when I was trying to set this up and returned to hand drawing and populating them. Because of many reasons, I want to get this working and get my schedules off the modeling space.

Because AC can't produce graphical wall schedules, I'm forced to fudge that part and I was going to create fill versions of my walls on a worksheet then create a schedule with a custom text block column left blank to allow for my "fill" walls. I was going to over lap the views to get the final result.

Here's my problem. When I try to generate a wall schedule it picks up all the walls on the modeling space so it makes entries on the schedule I don't need. If I try to do it completely with custom text blocks I end up with either a schedule that is 100+ rows long or as Link pointed out, if that option is selected, then there is only one row.

HOW DO YOU CONTROL THE # OF ROWS?! (or columns as the case may be)

This is really stumping me and this shouldn't, at least I wouldn't think so, be this hard.

Or, if when I do enter data into the fields that I do need then hit the "Show Uniform Items as a Single Entry", there is one field there that's EMPTY for all the empty fields. How do I get rid of that?

[Laszlo Nagy]

In such a case I usually set the ID of those elements I don't want listed to "", an empty text string (basically I don't write anything into the ID field), then specify in the Scheme Setup Dialog that I want to list only those elements the ID of which is not empty.
For those elements I want listed I simply specify some non-empty text for its ID.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I was able to slog my way through that endeavor with your hint. Dang, that's unintuitive.


For anyone who runs into this problem and needs a hint, I don't think it's possible to directly control the # of rows, rather your data limits how many rows there are.