Need Help Displaying Information in a Room Tag

[neb1998]

For some reason i cant get a room tag family to report to project file a specific varaible i have incorporated into a room tag.

I want to add the # of Beds to a room tag (hospital beds) so that i have an alternate room tag that displays the # of beds along with the square foot total of the room. The sqaure footage is no problem as its already a built in variable for a room tag.

The # of beds variable (has to be a number so i can total in schedule) shows up in the room tag family inside of the project file properties box but the variable is not linked to the actual room tag.

A question mark appears instead of the shared parameter that i created inside the room tag family.

Is this possible?

[LRaiz]

Did you add your # of beds shared parameter to Rooms category using Settings > Project Parameters?

[neb1998]

Thank you, Thought revit would add it automatically for me.

[LRaiz]

Actually I think you have a good enhancement idea. Your struggles seem to be typical. On one hand users often know how to add shared parameter label to their tag families and load these families into projects. But on the other hand they frequently forget to add parameters to a project category that corresponds to their tag category.

It should be not too difficult to implement an enhancement and at the time of tag loading perform checking and possibly pop up a dialog asking user to confirm that (s)he wants to add an appropriate project parameter. (It is slightly more complicated in case of title block when user has to chose between drawing parameter and project-information parameter).

It'd be nice to see this enhancement in some future release.

[Sweetshelby]

Yes that would be great. Most people in our office don't know about parameters so this would be great! I got a question from someone today and had to show them how to load in the parameter!

[neb1998]

Actually I think you have a good enhancement idea. Your struggles seem to be typical. On one hand users often know how to add shared parameter label to their tag families and load these families into projects. But on the other hand they frequently forget to add parameters to a project category that corresponds to their tag category.

It should be not too difficult to implement an enhancement and at the time of tag loading perform checking and possibly pop up a dialog asking user to confirm that (s)he wants to add an appropriate project parameter. (It is slightly more complicated in case of title block when user has to chose between drawing parameter and project-information parameter).

It'd be nice to see this enhancement in some future release.Right, Typically if i add a shared parameter to a family it will self load so i can select from it for a schedule - as was the case prior to loading the parameter manually.

This actually goes further in that i want to be able to run formulas inside of the actual room tag to generate data such as SQ FT / BED etc, i know i can do this in schedules but would like the data to be used within the tag itself and reported on the room tag itself.

I believe this is already on the wishlist.

Thanks again,