Removal of Departments from room assignments

[thillhouse]

We created our office template from a previous project. In doing so it brought along a lot of definitions for Room-departments specific to that project. Is there a way to clear them out or edit them to something else? For example the original project was a classroom building so several rooms had "English" as a department designation. Now I'm working on a Lab building and when I go to add a department, "English" still shows up in the pull down (along with 50 others). Can those be removed or edited? Do they show up in a Key Schedule somewhere?

Thanks
Tim

[cdatechguy]

Add the Department parameter to your Room Schedule....you can modify them there...

Depending on how many departments you have it may be quick to modify or it may take a little while...Because its a system parameter though, the only way you can modify them all at once is to select all rooms on a level and change the Department in the Properties to something else.

Just tested it, you can put in a space so that it makes it look like its empty. ;)

[thillhouse]

Thanks for your quick response! Unfortunately all of the departments that are in the pull down list are not assigned to a room in the project... so when I add the parameter to the room schedule, it only shows the departments that I have assigned...

Could there be a way to purge the system parameter for "department"?

Thanks!

Tim

[cdatechguy]

As long as room has something in the department field it will show up in the pull down list.

So if you still have a list even though all your rooms you added a blank to it...make sure you don't have any Not Placed Rooms that may have info there.

But now that I say that, I tried to get rid of the 100 or so departments I have in my open project (luckily its a copy) and I still have 6 that are showing up from somewhere. :roll: