room tag with finish information

[t1.shep]

I'm trying to create a room tag that contains wall, base, and floor finish information. I've attached the tag that we used for CAD.
Basically I need a tutorial on how to go about creating this kind of tag. I don't necessarily need these things to self populate, I'm ok entering some of this info by hand. I'm not sure if you can even have any of it fill out automatically?
I have been able to create parameters for scheduling within the project, but I'm not sure how to get the tag to read those parameters. I'm guessing that it has something to do with shared parameters? Those are something I have no knowledge about.
If any can and would be willing to lend their expertise, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.

[JamesVan]

Ooooh, this is a good one. I thought our room tag was complicated! There are some of the limitations you might face in implementing this in Revit. Revit stores Floor, Base, Wall and Ceiling finish codes in the Room object. You cannot indicate actual wall materials (i.e. those that might be 'painted on') within a room tag. You also can't show Elevation fields within a Room Tag.

That said, you can create Shared Parameters (which would only be additional text fields) into your Room Tag and assign them to Rooms in the Revit project. These new parameters would be something like Wall Finish N, Wall Finish S, etc. You could also approach the elevations this way, but you'd be circumventing Revit's ability to automatically coordinate the references via a real elevation symbol.

[nancy.mcclure]

Add Labels to your custom Room Tag that will report back Shared Parameter information from your room elements. I've created a few versions to meet a particular client's graphic standards that have worked pretty well (see attached). The RoomFinishVaries tag is used when one (or more) of the basic finish catagories (base, wall, ceiling, floor) needs further definition, and it is positioned against the Room Tag to reference which of those catagories is being expanded upon.

[nancy.mcclure]

I guess I should explain those tags a bit further:

The CDCR Room Tag - Finishes .rfa uses Labels that report standard room parameters. Easy peasy.

The RoomFinishVaries .rfa uses Labels with Shared Parameters, so those needed to be created first before being assigned to the tag labels. We create specific groups for Finishes, LEED data, etc., to keep the Shared Parameters file manageable. The challenge is in anticipating the type/length of data to be reported, and setting up the tags so that they have space/formatting to hold the info, so we tie these to Key Schedules whenever possible to keep the references compact and still identify a lot of data.

Hope that helps!