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Favorites not remembering story's

Anonymous
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ArchiCAD 17 - When saving things to favorites, certain elements have a story that they are set to. Generally most items just go for your current story, however slabs and zones are jumping story's..
So if I save a slabs settings while in the sub floor into favorites, when I select it in the favorites pallet I can see the story settings are correct, but then when I drag my cursor to the model to place the slab, the slabs story changes to floor plan.. If I don't notice the change then when I place the slab it will seem like it isn't there, when it has actually placed itself on the story above.
Zones do this too.
Does anyone have a solution to this as I am setting a favorites pallet up for a number of draftees to use and don't want reoccurring issues?
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
You can customize which parameters of elements are saved and applied with Favorites:

http://helpcenter.graphisoft.com/guides/archicad-18-int-reference-guide/configuration/favorites/cust...

I also found an old article that talks about bugs with this in AC17:

http://195.144.20.131/Troubleshooting/ParameterExclusionsInFavorites

It says it was later fixed so make sure you have the latest AC17 build:

http://www.graphisoft.com/downloads/archicad/updates/AC17/AC17-6004to8000-ReleaseNotes.html
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Matt Balaam
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We have ongoing issues with this (or something very similar).

Our issue stems from saving a favourite for an element that is entirely below zero on it's home story.

Long story short, there is a bug in Graphisoft's long winded algorithm for determining the home story from a favourite that causes the home story to be set incorrectly for elements entirely below 0.

Not sure if this is your exact problem but it may have something to do with it.

Laszlo's first point about changing which parameters are applied by favourites is the only way "around" the problem.
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Anonymous
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Thanks for the replies lads..

Lazlo that definitely helped and has pretty much fixed the issue, thank you