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No matter how many ways I try to add a parameter to the overhead door family, I can't get anymore information that the size to schedule. I'd like to be able to say it's a coiling, grille-type door in the schedule. Suggestions?
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If you name your doors accordingly, you could use the family name ... otherwise add a parameter to the schedule that you fill in.
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I have added a parameter but when I fill it in, it doesn't appear in the schedule.
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The easiest way of doing this. Just add the parameter to the schedule. This is what you have not obviously done. You do this under the schedule properties and this does not have to be shared unless you want to export to ODBC or if you want to us it in a tag. When you add to the family, it has to be a shared parameter if you want it in a schedule.
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The parameter is already in the schedule.
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At 1:58 you wrote: "I have added a parameter but when I fill it in, it doesn't appear in the schedule." then at 2:47 you wrote: " The parameter is already in the schedule." This doesn't make sense. Are you filling it in in the schedule? We are miss-communicating. Did you read my post?
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I know - it totally doesn't make sense. The door schedule has door and frame type fields. All the other doors in my project have door and frame type parameters in their properties. My overhead door does not have door and frame type in its properties, nor can I add them such that the information (steel, wood, what have you) appear in the schedule.
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You need a better understanding of parameters. These topics in your HELP will H E L P: Custom Parameters Shared Parameters Setting up Shared Parameter Files Adding Shared Parameters to Families Schedules with Shared Parameters
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I went through all those and they didn't H E L P.
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For anyone who has been following this thread, I stumbled upon the solution: The trick: when you are in the door schedule and click on view properties>fields, you have the option to edit one of your chosen fields. I chose to edit the door type field. I clicked the open box that says, "add to all elements in selected categories" and selected doors. The overhead door now has a working door type parameter in its properties.
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