hermeytheelf
2009-03-18, 07:03 PM
I know this is something that everyone probably ignores but it really annoys me. It's typical for a new user when discovering File > Transfer Project Standards to think they broke something when they see a big warning about duplicate types. I typically tell them to pick the New Only option.
I decided to do a little test...
* Create two new projects from our company template, name them 'company1' and 'company2'
* Transfer Project Standards from one into the other, get 'Duplicate Types' Warning which tells me that 'The following Types already exist in the destination project but are different:' I did a Snaggit text capture and found that there were 36 materials in the list?!?! How is it that these Types are different when the two projects were started from the exact same template and had no modifications done to them?
I tried the same test using the OTB 'Default.rte' and had the same problem only there were not as many materials that came up in the list.
The main problem that I have with this is how am I supposed to tell people that you can ignore some warnings but not others. The lowest common denominator approach is most frequently taken and users just ignore everything. That's why we end up with Hospital projects that have 3000 items pop up in 'Review Warnings' and people clicking 'OK' when Revit announces that it needs to make a copy of the Central File and then they wonder why they can't see their changes to the original Central File.
I decided to do a little test...
* Create two new projects from our company template, name them 'company1' and 'company2'
* Transfer Project Standards from one into the other, get 'Duplicate Types' Warning which tells me that 'The following Types already exist in the destination project but are different:' I did a Snaggit text capture and found that there were 36 materials in the list?!?! How is it that these Types are different when the two projects were started from the exact same template and had no modifications done to them?
I tried the same test using the OTB 'Default.rte' and had the same problem only there were not as many materials that came up in the list.
The main problem that I have with this is how am I supposed to tell people that you can ignore some warnings but not others. The lowest common denominator approach is most frequently taken and users just ignore everything. That's why we end up with Hospital projects that have 3000 items pop up in 'Review Warnings' and people clicking 'OK' when Revit announces that it needs to make a copy of the Central File and then they wonder why they can't see their changes to the original Central File.