Shared Parameter Not Showing for some in schedule

[Firmso]

Hi, I have a door schedule with a Door-Type Shared Parameter but only selectable on some doors but not all. Is there something I need to do so that it would be "Shared" for all doors? Mainly the roll-up doors are giving me this problem. All suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[dhurtubise]

Is this a parameter from the family ? Or a project parameter ?

[Adam Mac]

Is this a parameter from the family ? Or a project parameter ?Yeah Firmso - it sounds as though you may need to load the shared parameter into your project file and add to all your doors?

HTH

Adam

[Elmo]

From the sounds of it you would need to add this parameter to all your door families. You will then need to reload them into the project in order for them to work. It has been a wish of mine that I could simply create this shared parameter and say add this parameter to these families. It would make life a little easier but wishes are wishes and I work in reality.

[Adam Mac]

Ultimately - as Elmo suggests - you'll need to load the parameter into your individual door families so you won't ever have this problem occurring again - but in the mean time (and this is as much a question as an answer....anyone?) you could load the shared parameter into the project and add it to the door families within the project.
This would have to be considered a "quick fix" though as it wouldn't help you the next time you started a new project and loaded some more doors.....

Adam
:)

[Elmo]

Adam the thing is that you can't add a parameter to a family inside a project. You could add it to the schedule but not the family. So if you wanted the family to update you would need to add it to the family as-well.

[Adam Mac]

Hi Elmo -

Maybe I used the wrong term: I should have said "...door category" rather than families,
and I know you can do that. Have attached a pic of what i'm thinking.....

Adam
:)

[Steve_Stafford]

If the parameter is not changing anything in the family it does not need to be in the family at all. Add the shared parameter to the project and assign it to the door category, notice the check box that says apply to all elements... Adding it this way it will be available for all doors and assigned in the project only. When you edit one in the family editor the parameter won't be there. If the parameter changes geometry or is part of a formula it must be in the family. If the parameter is in some of your doors and not others then you need to add it to the project and decide whether it really needs to be in the door families at all.

[davidcobi]

The one thing you probably don't want to do habitually (although it's ok for a fix) is to add the exact same shared parameter to some of you door families and then add it as a project parameter for the door category. Reason being is that if you're not careful to select the same settings (group and type/instance), when adding the shared parameter to BOTH the door family and the project parameters door category, is that strange things start to happen in your schedule. In some doors the shared parameter is an instance and some it is a type, or when you change the group setting in the project parameter I believe it changes it in the loaded door families but won't do the same for the instance/type setting.

It can make the schedule very confusing to someone who's not aware that the same shared parameter was loaded into some doors and then as a door category project parameter. You just have to make sure you select the same settings for the shared parameter when adding it to both for a quick fix and note not to change the project parameter settings accidentally later.