List Floor Plan Selection - Save as View

[joaopina14]

Schedules are useful for mapping quantities, and if we right click a schedule, we have the option "List Floor Plan Selection". Although, we can't save this selection as a independent view. I gets updated to the entire project and doesn't save only for the selected items

Adicionaly, I think it would be useful to have this featue to "List Selected Only" for 3D view because, sometimes we want to list items that are on diferent floor plans

[Pablo Gaita]

That option seems tied to the whole project view rather than the selected items, so saving it separately doesn’t appear straightforward. Having it for 3D or mixed floor plans could indeed feel practical in some workflows.

[Barry Kelly]

Schedules work for the entire model.

You have to use criteria to filter exactly what you want to schedule.

That selection option just allows you to see the selected items only using that schedule, rather than the entire project results.

Use it for testing/checking only.

You can not permanently set a selection set to work with the schedule, you have to filter by criteria as I already mentioned.

You will need to make a wish if you want the features you are asking for.

Barry.

[Laszlo Nagy]

I would solve this situation the following way:

1. Create a Property with the "Option Set" Data type (let us say its name would be "Schedule Selection") and make it available for all Classifications so all schedulable elements will have access to this Property.

2. Create a number of Options in the Option Set, and give them descriptive names that will make it easy to identify the various groups of selected elements you want to schedule.

 

3. Go to Floor Plan or 3D, select the elements you want to schedule, and assign the proper value for the "Schedule Selection" Property from the Option Set. Let us say, you assign it the Option "Floor Plan Selection".

4. Then use the "Schedule Selection" Property in the Schedule criteria to schedule only the elements the "Schedule Selection" Property of which has the value or contains the value "Floor Plan Selection".

The above works if each element is only part of one selection for scheduling purposes.

If some elements are part of multiple selections, then you need to use the "Allow Multiple choices" checkbox in the Options Setup Dialog for the Property's Option Set. That will enable you to use multiple Options for the "Schedule Selection" Property and thus make it part of multiple selections. In that case, the Schedule criteria will have to say

"Schedule Selection" CONTAINS <selected option>

This is because if you used 

"Schedule Selection" IS <selected option>

then those elements that are part of multiple selections would not be included.