Interactive Schedule-minor problems

[rgarand]

Hello all,

I have generated a door schedule which feels and looks the way I want it. I am now having trouble with one door when I am in the interactive schedule preview window. The one door is greyed out and nothing is editable. All of the other doors within the preview window have certain editable cells except this one. Any thoughts on this?

TIA

[Karl Ottenstein]

rgarand wrote:
I have generated a door schedule which feels and looks the way I want it. I am now having trouble with one door when I am in the interactive schedule preview window. The one door is greyed out and nothing is editable. All of the other doors within the preview window have certain editable cells except this one. Any thoughts on this?

Hi Rob,

Good meeting you last week. The usual reason that elements in the I.S. can not be edited is that they reside on hidden or locked layers, or the elements themselves have been locked. The unusual reason is that their parameter names do not match the parameters set up in the Fields tab.

Is the troublesome door a different version than the doors that work? (I.e., are the working doors 81 doors, but the troublesome door an old 70 one?) Screenshot of Fields dialog and Preview?

Regards,
Karl

[rgarand]

Karl,

Thanks for the info. The door in question happened to be in a layer that was off in my Door Schedule view set, as soon as I turned on the layer the door and all editable settings became available in the schedule.

Thanks!

I really appreciate you coming to the big city to share your knowledge with us. It was worth every penny.

[Karl Ottenstein]

rgarand wrote:
I really appreciate you coming to the big city to share your knowledge with us. It was worth every penny.

Thanks a lot, Rob! Airfare and hotels pump the overhead up, so one always worries about providing value. Wish we had had another day to cover even more things. Maybe this fall! 😉

Glad the schedule fix was easy! 😉

Thanks again.

Karl

[rgarand]

Karl,

One other question. We have used your techniques from the seminar to add another paramater value to a zone identifier object. We see the parameter in the object parameters(within the library manager). We now want to add this parameter to the door schedule. The problem is, we can't find this parameter anywhere. Is there a special secret or "black magic" way to see the parameter in the additional parameters dialog box?

[Karl Ottenstein]

rgarand wrote:
We now want to add this parameter to the door schedule. The problem is, we can't find this parameter anywhere. Is there a special secret or "black magic" way to see the parameter in the additional parameters dialog box?

Yes. 😉

OK, tempting as it is to leave it at that ... 😉 ... when you are in the Fields tab of the IS settings, click the Additional Parameters button, switch to browse by Subtype, find the Zone Stamp as shown in the attached screenshot, and select your custom stamp ... and all of its params will be listed in the lower list. UNLIKE the screenshot, you want to deselect everything except the param(s) that you want ... otherwise you'll have to waste a bunch of time deleting all of the params that you don't want from your field list.

Karl

[rgarand]

Karl,

That worked great. We are now on our way to really getting these interactive schedules to work for us. Lono and I have been able to develop our door and interior finish schedules. We have also start to think about our door, window and louver types schedules/lists. With your help, we have been able to cross link 100% of the variables we like to see in our schedules. 75% or more of those variables are numbers that are generated by ArchiCAD and are no longer user input values...which translates to TIME SAVINGS for us. The Pres and VP are quite pleased to see the program working efficiently.

Is there anything online that describes existing variables and how and what they do? I have found the information for developers, i.e. the API info, would the above info be available in that kit?
I know I may be getting in over my head...but I like to understand what the objects and variables are doing for me. I then can make them work for me that much better.

[Anonymous]

I've used ArchiCad since 1992. I feel that I'm fairly proficient. However I could use some help getting the scheduling to work best for me. It sounds like there is a lot to learn from the ArchiCad University. When and where is the next one?

[Djordje]

outpostarc wrote:
It sounds like there is a lot to learn from the ArchiCad University. When and where is the next one?

You might find out here:

http://www.archicad-university.com/

[Laszlo Nagy]

rgarand wrote:
Is there anything online that describes existing variables and how and what they do? I have found the information for developers, i.e. the API info, would the above info be available in that kit?
I know I may be getting in over my head...but I like to understand what the objects and variables are doing for me. I then can make them work for me that much better.

There is one on ArchiGuide:
http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/listingparameters.html

It lists all the parameters that are available for thevarious elements in the Set Up List Schemes Dialog.