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Is there a way to create fields in a schedule to enter custom text? I want to display information in the schedule unique to each entry and not as part of the family  or type. Thanks!!

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If you add an instance parameter to the schedule, you can do this.

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That same shared instance parameter needs to be added to the family in question as well.

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Thanks for the replies! I've tried adding instance parameters, but the text is not editable directly in the schedule.

As an aside, other members of the team have noticed that instance parameters that we were able to edit before in the schedule are no longer editable. It seems that functionality of our instance parameters may have been lost? Is there some way that those parameters stop being editable?

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Schedules can only read shared parameters, not family parameters (either of which can be created as Type or Instance). the parameter you put in the family has to be the same shared parameter that you put in the schedule. Even if you create a "family" parameter with the exact same name as the shared parameter, they are two different objects in the world of Revit and will not communicate. Delete the non-working parameter from your family, and then add the correct shared parameter, and set it to Instance. Save and reload the family into the project. That should do it.

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Regarding the uneditableness of the instance parameters in your schedules, make sure that you have the same parameters in both the families and the schedules. If someone has edited the shared parameter file and deleted the original parameter and recreated it with the same name, it may be that the family has the old parameter and the schedule the new one, or vice versa, and they won't communicate. Also, if the your schedule is set up to show only one line per type rather than all instances, the instance field will not be editable.

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