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Hi all, My name is Josh and I'm a newcomer to the revit world. Having never worked in any other CAD environment and after only 2 weeks training, consisting mainly of revit tutorials and " find out whatever you can around" I've hit a stumbling block ( I do get tyhe feeling it won't be the last time though). I'm creating a generator family and I want one of the values (consumption) to be greyed out in the schedule so no one can change that value. I don't seem to find the way to do it, any blessed soul can help? Thanks in advance
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Unfortunately I don't know of anyway to lock a parameter, you can make it type based so when it is changed the person changing the value will get an error that they are changing a type parameter and it will affect all instances...
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I seem to have found a "sort of" workaround. It's basically creating a key schedule with only that value that will show under identity data. Admittedly you can edit the schedule, but you would have to be doing so willingly, rather than type on Instance parameters by mistak ewhile browsing th eproperties. If anyone has a better solution I would stil be grateful, as I was hoping to find a cell lock or something of the sort ( aah, good old excel). Thx in advance
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One way I was thinking, but dont know how to acomplish yet is to make it a project setting. With our sheets we have the project name and all as a parameter taken from a setting from the specific project. Not just text on the sheet. Is there not a way to set up a shared parameter so he could go into the project settings have a paramter "Consumption" for the project, he puts it in there, then he can add that parameter as a feild in the schedual. So then it is linked from the project setting, not just a regualr type or instance parameter. Im not sure if this will work with a schedual or will lock it. Any thoughts on this idea?
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Create another parameter that has the value you want. Then tell the parameter that don't want anybody to edit to equal the new parameter. This effectively locks this parameter. You can't change the value anywhere now no matter what you try. 
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