It would be great if we could use certain parts of a schedule as schedule-based properties (for example in applications such as Project Info or Properties).
What I am proposing is to give us an option to have a schedule-based property of a total of a specific column/row and/or a list of all unique values from the selected column/row. The property would be visible in a way that all other Project info, Properties and Layout info values are visible and available.
For instance, we could use it to automatically return the total area (or only the areas that match specific schedule conditions) of the zones in a textual format.
“Total building net area is [inserted schedule-based autotext property]”
This would also allow us to create text elements with inserted autotext values that describe the building in a meaningful way. If I have a schedule containing all my concrete elements, merged by a custom property such as material strength (C25/30, C30/35, etc.), we could then use a schedule-based property linked to that schedule to generate a list of all material strengths currently present in the project - use it as autotext somewhere.
And so much more...
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