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Schedule will not export

Anonymous
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Hi, Im trying to export a schedule but when I click on the export button nothing happens. All the other schedules will export except this one.

Does anyone one know why this could be happening??

thanks
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Laszlo Nagy
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Could you post a screenshot of the schedule?
Maybe from the look of it we can get some ideas of why it is not exported.
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Anonymous
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Appreciated if you could have a look and see what you think the problem might be laszlonagy!

Like I said I click on the export button and nothing happens
Laszlo Nagy
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Something is strange about this generated schedule.
In the Scheme Setup Dialog, I can see that fields are in order:
Element ID, Width, Height, Operation Type, Finish, Note/Remarks, View from Opening Side and To Zone.

If I look at the generated schedule, I can see that the first 3 and last 2 fields are in the column they are supposed to be.
But Column 4 is "Color" (should be Operation Type), Column 5 is Material (Should be Finish - this could also be fine).
So where is the Operation Type column? Is it gone?
Try to remove that column and see if it exports.

Or try to remove the View from Opening Side column and see if exports.

I also see that you made a common heading for the Height and Width. Maybe that is the cause. Try to remove it and see if it exports then.

Do only one of these at a time. We are just trying to pinpoint which setting is causing the problem.
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Anonymous
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Thats great laszlonagy, ill try what you suggest and post if it works or not

Appreciated


UPDATE

Turns out it was the name of the schedule in the schedule settings menu. I changed the name and it exported.
Barry Kelly
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strawbale wrote:
Turns out it was the name of the schedule in the schedule settings menu. I changed the name and it exported.
Good pick-up.
It was the "|" character.
As a general rule I try never to use any non-text characters other than "-" and "_" when naming something.
A few more non-text characters can be used these days than they could before but there are still some that obviously do not work.

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Laszlo Nagy
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Great that you found the solution.

Still, I would be curious about the issue I wrote in my post, could you illuminate me on that?:
If I look at the generated schedule, I can see that the first 3 and last 2 fields are in the column they are supposed to be.
But Column 4 is "Color" (should be Operation Type), Column 5 is Material (Should be Finish - this could also be fine).
So where is the Operation Type column? Is it gone?
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Anonymous
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Well spotted. Its because I used an existing window schedule and instead of changing the operation type parameter I just filled in the field with custom text that is not related to the parameter.

Now that the export issue is solved I'm going to set it up correctly using the correct parameters.

My office template was originally a Master Template that I bought from Eric Bobrow but has changed so much that Its virtually unrecognizable as such.

The | character that was the source of the export problem is an artifact of EBs template. Although I have adopted this character for use with my layer names.
Perhaps time to reconsider...

laszlonagy, Barry, do you know of any other situations where choice of character that might pose an issue??
Laszlo Nagy
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OK, I see, makes sense now.
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Barry Kelly
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strawbale wrote:
do you know of any other situations where choice of character that might pose an issue??
I can't say for sure now as I try to avoid using them.
But I believe it can affect saving or opening files.
Some operating systems may have trouble with filenames that have special characters in them although I think they are much better now than they used to be.
I am pretty sure in the past that when publishing files with special characters the name would be altered automatically - again not sure if this is the case now.

When ever I come across a problem opening, saving, publishing, merging, exporting, hot-linking, etc., a file then the first thing I look at is the file name and file path.

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