Multiple Schedule Filter Field Entries?

[Schuyler]

Im trying to create a Door schedule organized and filtered by Mark. Some of the filter options give you an open-ended field that you can just type into (i.e.In a schedule filter: Contains, Begins with, etc...) my questions is: Is it possible to enter multiple entries into this field?

For example: "Filter by:Mark:Begins with: <A; B; W- Z>"

where the entry in < > is how I'd like it to work. So far I haven't been able to find anything that works as a delimitation marker. Revit is good with letting you enter this type of user-input language for parameters and formulas so I feel like there is a way to do it here- So far I have not found that way. Any help would be great. Thanks

[Steve_Stafford]

Not really but then sometimes the answer requires the question asked slightly differently. The value you enter is literal so no delimiter is available. It would be nice if there were also an OR option for the current AND.

Any chance you are trying to sort doors by a "type" as opposed to a unique door Mark? So for example, Door Type A is common to a whole bunch of units but exactly the same door. If so you probably want a nice short schedule that just lists the type of door instead? Just like how we often do window schedules?

If these doors use the Type Mark parameter then you can just clear the check mark for Itemize Every Instance in the schedule properties under the Sorting/Grouping tab.

[Schuyler]

thanks steve,
no, I am sorting by mark. My issue is that I have lots of doors that are marked with various alphabetical prefixes (ie. HL, GR, ST, plus all the unit doors are also marked A-1, A-2, B-1, etc..) Anyways, what I was looking for was a way to filter several types of information at once in a single schedule so that I could just make changes once. The families parameters are very powerful in the way you can enter formulas and even IF, AND, OR conditionals as you mentioned- I thought there might be a similar syntax for Fields. I've worked around it by making several similar schedules that filter different info and ganging them together on the sheet- and just turning off the title and column headers in all but the first. Maybe in 10...?

schuyler

[josh.made4worship]

I am wondering the same thing. I have been having issues with phasing existing windows to be demolished in a existing wall and another "new construction" window going it it's place, and that interaction with groups. I just can't get it to work.

So, what I resolved to do is to use "Curtain Wall" instead of the windows, which works great as far as phasing and groups go. Now the problem is, how do I get a single schedule that I can filter on just the curtain "walls" I want, and not every wall type in the file. The issue is, say there are 25 wall types I am using, then I can only filter on one of them currently by Type Mark since we don't have an "OR" filter or some syntax of specifying multiple type marks in the same filter.

Looks like my only option is to create a shared parameter that I assign to each of those "curtain wall" types, and then filter off of that. This doesn't completely solve the original problem, since curtain walls don't have the right family type parameters (like height), to schedule like windows, but that's another problem that I know doesn't fit in this thread. But for anyone reading, I pretty much tried everything, every way I could think to get the phasing and groups to work right with windows, at no avail. It would work fine to have an existing wall with a new window in the group, but when I tried to have an existing window and a new window in the same place on the existing wall, it's like Revit doesn't know how to host it since it automatically creates a peice of infill wall when you assign the existing windows to demolished. Anywhoo....

Anyone have ideas on this?

[josh.made4worship]

any ideas on the thread I posted above on this Steve?...particularly with the new releases of Revit?